Word: informals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assume a host of other duties, i.e., "Frinstance, the Ladies' gets stopped up, don't be afraid to roll up your sleeves and put your 'ands into 'em. A little bit soap, a little bit water, everything's gone and forgotten. For dead babies, inform the police." The plot, such as it is, concerns two wars. One is fought between Sam Yudenow and a neighborhood storekeeper named Godbolt from whom he rents his movie theater (formerly a church); Sam hates Godbolt for no better reason than that he cheated him. The other war is fought...
...case against giving so much power to one man. In effect, the script gives the reader fresh reason to wonder whether a medium of communication dedicated first to selling things, and also subject to government controls, can be expected ever to achieve full power to discuss and to inform...
...sidedness of the monopoly newspaper that contains the greatest threat to local democracy now, but its circumspect neutrality in many matters where the clash of opinion is desirable." Most newspapers' sins of omission* and commission spring from an economic dilemma: they are torn between the journalistic duty to inform and the competitive need to entertain mass audiences which have little interest in serious news. The modern newspaper editor, says Williams, is "a blood brother to Barnum"; his paper "a three-ring circus, daily presenting to its patrons the greatest show on earth...
...Broadcasting and Film Commission, totted up the 1956 figures on films with Catholic and Protestant themes and happily announced the result: four to one in favor of the Protestants. Lutheran Heimrich gave most of the credit for better Protestant billing to the Council of Churches' campaign to inform producers about Protestantism. One lost battle of the campaign: the council appealed to ministers for film scripts, got several and rejected them all. The flaw: "They would never get the seal of approval of the Production Code Administration, for in part (e.g., by portraying pastors bossed around by church-board members...
House interviews for freshmen begin this afternoon. House representatives will hold "consultation hours" each weekday until March 28 for applicants. Freshmen are urged to have their interviews early and to inform themselves, through the interviews, of what each House has to offer, according to Dean Watson...