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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Milan's "European Conference on the Esthetics of Television," delegates from Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, debated for days about TV ground rules, agreed on nothing but a definition of television's role: "To distract, inform and instruct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Your story on Freud (with another wonderful portrait by Ben Shahn) has probably done more to inform embarrassed non-Freudian cocktail conversationalists than 20 hours of college lectures could. Your text served mainly to point out one glaring id-ego-syncrasy in Freud's primary approach: if he had only asked the question "Why am I?" rather than "What am I?" his searching would have led eventually to the soul-triumphant symbol of the Cross rather than the sex-triumphant symbol of the couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...letter asked Clive R. Grey, NSA Vice-President on International Affairs, to publicize their complaint through the international press, inform UNESCO and the Commission on Human Rights, and send an investigating commission of the International Student Conference to Paraguay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paraguay Students Protest Governmental Suppression | 4/28/1956 | See Source »

Cried Author George R. (Storm) Stewart, professor of English at the University of California and veteran battler against California's regents' loyalty oath: "I am walking out. I will return to the University of California, where I shall inform my colleagues that the action you have taken here is tyrannous. I shall also tell them that they should wear their censure proudly as a badge of torture given by a tyrant." Added Frederic Heimberger, professor of political science at Ohio State: "As a member and loyal supporter of the A.A.U.P. for 25 years, I am shocked and dismayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Guardian | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...shall in general wage no political campaign in the customary pattern. Instead, my principal purpose if renominated will be to inform the American people accurately through means of mass communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: If the People Choose | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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