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...communication at the University of New Hampshire, points out that TV reveals to children the "backstage" activity of adults. Even a seemingly innocuous program like Father Knows Best showed that parents aren't all-knowing authority figures: they agonize over problems in private and sometimes even conspire to fool children. "Television exposes kids to behavior that adults spent centuries trying to hide from children," says Meyrowitz. "The average child watching television sees adults hitting each other, killing each other, breaking down and crying. It teaches kids that adults don't always know what they're doing." N.Y.U.'s Postman believes...
This whole strange country that can endlessly fool itself and be fooled and yet retain a saving common sense; this materialistic, money-driven country that is constantly caught up in moral, sometimes naively moralistic struggles; this smug country that is relentlessly self-critical; this freest of all countries in the world, living both the dangers and the triumphs of freedom...
This bit of news came as a surprise to me. I had assumed that I was admitted because I was willing to be the guy who--in a misguided effort to outdress everyone--makes a fool out of himself at Commencement by wearing a white tuxedo...
Later there was a rumor that Stalin demanded that Nikolayev be brought before him. Nikolayev fell to his knees, said he had acted on orders and begged for mercy. Maybe he figured he would be allowed to live because he had only carried out his mission. He was a fool. For the mission to remain secret, he had to be exterminated...
...Hatter's tea party. But by now I've broken out in a clammy sweat, and I've become acutely aware of the people lined up behind me waiting their turn on the machine. Have they been watching me wrestling spastically with my DataGlove? Have I been making a fool of myself for what could have been only a few minutes but seemed like hours...