Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house we live in and which lives on us. It is that small, luminous, oracular, electronic avatar called television. Arlen is in passionate agreement with Richard Goodwin who writes: "We pass through all this tumult seated before the inexorable shadows of a TV set-certainly the greatest psychic disturber ever created...
...consecrated code of democratic mediocrity usually referred to as impartiality. Television is commonly given considerable credit for generating national discontent over the war, It brought ten minutes of war in front of the chops and asparagus each evening, often adding an other hour of thoughtful commentary. No war had ever been covered so thoroughly. No war ever lasted so long, resisted explanation so obstinately, or became so hopelessly opaque in spite of the heroic agitation of television analysis. The point is not of course that TV is entirely responsible for this situation, but that it is responsible to a considerable...
...that time, the Faculty had first voted down an endorsement of the October 15 moratorium-apparently because the moratorium was too political an issue-and then had turned around to approve a motion calling for a speedy withdrawal of U. S. forces from Vietnam-a political stand if there ever...
...first of these is a mock-up of the graveyard in Dodge City. Then there's a huge collection of rifles, pistols, and other guns kept in glass cases. Also, right after the O. K. Corral comes a display of all 211 different kinds of barbed wire there ever were. Overhead the barbed wire is a yellow sign. The sign says "Bonnie and Clyde straight ahead...
...Dwight David Eisenhower, who was perhaps one of the greatest presidents ever to lead the United States, and certainly one of the most able commanders ever to lead our armies in war. He was born in Denson, Texas, and was also president of Columbia University from 1948-1952. The museum hasn't gotten around to including that he died this year. Most people said something about this to their children...