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...short, McLuhanesque gloom as usual; the juggernaut future is here, so let us all lie down. But as Lewis Mumford indicates in The Pentagon of Power, what McLuhan is asking for is utter human docility. "The goal is total cultural dissolution??or what McLuhan characterizes as a 'tribal communism'McLuhan's public relations euphemism for totalitarian control." Thus Sesame Street is indeed opposed to the message, if not the medium, of the Master. The show's civilized magic and surrealism seek to increase a child's sense of himself, to dilate his imagination and his capacities...
AUSTRIA IN DISSOLUTION???Count Stephen Burián? Doran ($6.00). Count Burián, who held office in 1915-17 and again in 1918, was virtually the last Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is true that, late in October, 1918, Count Julius Andrassy succeeded him, but as Count Burián remarks in view of the bursting storm, he "was already regarded as the first Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs...
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