Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From other viewpoints, however, there may well be valid objections to certain uses of television. It is here that the crucial question of appropriateness arises...
...bulk of the Egyptian army in Sinai collapsed like a pricked balloon. "The first night of operations," Ben-Gurion told the Knesset, "we took Kuntilla after twenty minutes of resistance, Ras el Naqb near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command car from hotspot to hotspot, promptly took charge. "Our infantry was inching along taking casualties under heavy...
...Clock. Radio and TV had not even run their first-string pundits and their elaborate mechanical brains into the game when the decisive answers to some crucial questions began to flood...
...gigantic broadcasting industry, with its wealth of communication facil ities and its boasts of "public service," actually serving the people? Last week, with a firm case in point, the New York Times answered with a resounding no that rocked Manhattan executive suites. The networks' failure to carry the crucial session of the U.N. Security Council (at which the U.S. split with France and Britain) was roundly denounced by the Times's TV Critic Jack Gould as "stupid, selfish and irresponsible-an absolute mockery of the industry's obligation to serve the public interest." Where were...
Cheer & Heartbreak. Lowney has fed, clothed and sheltered as many as 17 writers at one time, currently has only four in residence. But she is often disappointed. The maverick personalities she attracts-social rebels, ex-jailbirds, protesting college boys-sometimes desert the colony at the crucial moment. Says Lowney: "I've had four books just about finished here that walked out. Good books. It's heartbreaking." But she is consoled by the fact that two novels are now in progress at the colony and six completed ones are currently in the hands of publishers...