Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somewhat annoyed with Daly's suspicion that I "rushed the book out to aid the UFW in the crucial farmworker elections now underway." Had he checked, he would have learned that the book was completed and in galley form before there was any inkling that a secret ballot election bill could ever be passed through the California legislature. It is common knowledge that there is a one-year lead time between the completion of a major book and its publication date...
Since the 1920s, the electronic media have become a fashionable source of anxiety, their power apparently boundless but their influence still strangely unclear. If information dispersal has become an entertainment form, this is, as we have seen, no total break with the past. When news came infrequently, as it did in the 18th century, its reception often provided occasions for gathering and celebration. It is the frequency of its reception that makes the real difference. When the entertainment appears daily, even hourly, the focus becomes the transmitter, not the information. This may be the only way of coping with...
...early typewriter as the bringer of universal literacy and world peace; our predictions about telephones, radio, film and television have been similarly cosmic. American Utopias, as in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, gloried in a world linked by instantaneous communications; current proponents of cable television see this form as the solution to a remarkable medley of social ills...
...another can indicate nothing more noble than vulgar curiosity. But even self-criticism must have its limits, and we should not forget that keeping in touch remains a sign of an ancient faith, inherited from our Revolution: that enlightenment will eventually bring its own reward and that a form of truth can somehow emerge, battered but intact, from the mass of information that both obscures and protects...
Feminism has set a small swarm of lightning bugs flickering, and the Times snuffs out most of them. Ms., for example, is to be used only in quoted material or in discussing the term itself. The stylebook decrees that some words whose original form includes man should remain unchanged: it proscribes chairwoman and spokeswoman on the grounds that chairman and spokesman suffice for both sexes, but it accepts assemblywoman and councilwoman. To "avoid words or phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned...