Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter press secretary Jody Powell said that yesterday was Carter's last day of campaigning in the Bay State, and there were no plans to return Tuesday night. After the Faneuil Hall speech the Carter campaign convoy made a brief but high-in-symbolic-content visit to Salem before taking off for the South from Logan Airport...
...Mendelson period an "identity crisis--we were losing our identity as a political journal." White agrees: "Rick and Tim viewed the Review more as a marketable product than anything else. Their entrepreneurial spirit was permeating the editorial staff." Saylor says that Mendelson and Bliss's pursuit of professional content and production and a firm financial base "soon became transformed into a sort of entrepreneurial game. With all the interest in marketing we kind of lost sight of what kind of magazine we were putting out." Even the SAC had harsh words for Mendelson and Bliss: "Nothing like the optimistic goals...
...press for practically every kind of moral degeneration, noting that "with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous class who must find their reading in a newspaper" or nowhere at all. The style of newspapers, as well as their content, added to their influence. Other visitors found that even educated Americans preferred their information summarized and predigested, even if it was abbreviated, inconsistent and strangely organized; it took too much time to read anything else. To service a broad public, American newspapers became magazines, creating various feature sections that appealed...
...Wertmuller is not content to delineate the objective aspects of the camps, however horrifying these might be; what concerns her is their subjective side, the meaning of the ordeal for those who experienced it. Thus, the camera returns to Pasquale after its sweep of the camp. Because we know Pasquale after its sweep of the camp. Because we know Pasquale after its sweep of the camp. Because we know Pasquale and are aware that his arrival in the camps hinged on a series of accidents, his look of terror and disbelief forces us to view the holocaust afresh. After thirty...
...when he is content to remain in the third person, Amis is able to maintain a flat, detached tone that permits a parade of horrors to pass strangely muted, without arousing more than a vague disgust...