Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because when we approach certain problems our language hinders our thinking. The way American social scientists write makes it practically impossible for a layman to understand what they mean, or to understand the society they nominally discuss. An even grosser example is advertising, with which public media saturate the whole populations of capitalist countries. The language and images of advertising condition us with consumption-directed ways of seeing reality. Recent Hollywood films also present life as a process of acquisition that far exceeds need. When we take such depictions of reality for granted, they enslave us. Unexamined assumptions about reality...
Spiro T. Agnew is both weapon and target in this election year. Last week, between campaign forays, he took time out to discuss this dual role, with its problems and rewards, with TIME Correspondents Hugh Sidey and John Stacks. Seated in his luxurious suite in the Executive Office Building, a white marble bust of Socrates staring over his shoulder, the Vice President was tanned from a weekend of tennis in Palm Springs. But he looked and sounded a little weary, and as he spoke, he showed a curious mixture of nearly self-righteous assurance about the accuracy of his charges...
Harvard's varsity soccer team will hold a squad meeting this afternoon to discuss with coach Bruce Munro the team's policy on choosing a starting line-up and on making substitutions during the game...
...substitution policy is that both Munro and the players discuss the changes in personnel, and that everyone invoived understands why he is or isn't playing. Hopefully, today's meeting will create that understanding...
...Norton trying to appreciate Hindu cookery; "it was impossible for me to do justice to the fifteen different articles which the hospitable attention of the Rajah urged upon me." And it would be just as difficult to define in words the Eames approach to problem solving that he will discuss and demonstrate in the Norton lecture series...