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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Main Street produced an ad worthy of Madison Avenue. The ad, which ran in several of TIME'S regional editions, showed a child peering through a door window bearing a "clinic closed" sign. Readers were asked to "help Surgoinsville find a doctor"-and, as it turns out, they did...
"The question," the announcer said, " is how much the train has been slowed down enroute from Newark." No, The question all along (we had known three days ago who was killed) was who was dead.
Still, perhaps one a year it inadvertently reveals what we need to see and hear. One example which Arlen describes was the irony of a Vietnam special by CBS newsman Morley Safer. As Westmoreland asks about basic training and remarks about the high morale, a soldier tells Safer that he...
Perhaps we have made a melodrama of television's effects on us just as we used to make a romance of its possibilities. Nevertheless, I feel that it reflects the contemporary human heart's division against itself, and divides that heart more seriously. Unless television's discreating capacities are stressed...
This argument sets up a straw man and knocks it down. No one has proposed "speaking for" anyone else. No one has claimed the right to "bind" any dissenting member of the Harvard community, faculty or otherwise (unless it be the Harvard Corporation, which has meted out what many consider...