Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every British radio owner pays an annual fee of ?1. BBC operates on only three wave lengths: the "Light" (mostly variety shows and dance music), the "Home" (slightly heavier fare), and the "Third Program" (strictly cultural). Thousands of listeners add to BBC revenues by buying BBC publications. Radio Times, a...
Radio as a cultural phenomenon impressed Oxford Historian E. L. Woodward because "for the first time a single voice can address the whole world." In praise of BBC, Woodward says that the British "at once saw the control of broadcasting as one of the problems of liberty. They treated this...
He thought there was nothing odd about the fact that he knew several of the people accused by Elizabeth Bentley: George Silverman (a friend of his Harvard days), Victor Perlo, Harry White, Robert Talbot Miller III. Some were economists and he knew "literally hundreds of economists throughout the Government." One...
A Look Ahead. Though the Radical Party issued a warning to the nation that Peronistas were seeking to concentrate "all political, economic and cultural powers" under one "official party and its chief," the warning reached few Argentines. The government controlled press and radio saw to that.
There had been hints of trouble. Last July, the Met's directors announced that the condition of the U.S.'s No. 1 cultural pride & glory was "critical." But few took the announcement seriously: hadn't the Met cried wolf before? Besides, the 65-year-old Met had...