Word: human
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research whose results we print here was done by Dr. Albert Bandura, professor of Psychology at the University of Stanford. Apart from the intrinsic interest of his conclusions, the material presented here should demonstrate the full power of the media in shaping our values and molding human behavior...
...useful, however, to try to understand the process of learning-by-imitation outlined here, because radicals could well use these methods for the opposite ends to foster decent human values and attitudes. At the very least, Dr. Bandura's work should teach us to realize quite how dangerous it is to leave control of the media in the wrong hands...
...search for a villain, if it fails elsewhere, can always rely on the speculators to conveniently stand as whipping boys for public indignation. The moral implication always runs, "Had it not been for their greed..." But even the speculators can be excused. Greed and avarice are fairly common human motivations, and it is a bit foolish--as well as futile--to ask financiers to exercise exemplary moral restraint...
Northshield dislikes blatant editorializing on TV; he is mildly contemptuous of the kind of thing Eric Severeid does for CBS. But he says with unabashed frankness that "there is no such thing as objectivity in television reporting, not so long as it involves human feelings." And he does not apologize for it. And anyway, the public outcry against the networks was not a reaction against non-objective reporting or the result of a credibility gap between network and public. On the contrary, he says, the outcry resulted from the complete credibility TV has for the public -- the result of merging...
TECHNOLOGY has devised a new nudity. No starlet could half-hide under bubbles in Babette Newburger's clear blown Plexiglas bathtub. The tub stands on four carved Plexiglas human legs at the Contemporary Crafts' Plastic as Plastic exhibit, which is the most gleamingly contemporary and pertinent of any in New York...