Word: informativeness
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Reed (570 students) and Bennington (309 students) keep grades but do not communicate them to students, using conferences to inform students about the quality of their work...
...most entertaining aspect of the afternoon was the voice which exuded periodically from the public address system to inform '32 of the various events and excursions which were available to them. A sizable amount of grads, wives, and offspring left to enjoy the sands of Magnolia Beach, but an equally large number stayed behind to vegetate and spectate on the Club grass...
...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...