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Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Harris gives no quarter to any journalist living or dead ("Reporters cannot believe things they cannot instantly absorb, jot down, add up and phone in ... The media treat with cyn icism or derision anything they cannot comprehend"). Since no information broadcast or printed is worth knowing, he says, people should simply ignore journalism. They will learn of really important matters through other means - conversation, literature, deduction, he suggests. Then Harris switches hyper bole in midflight, arguing that the press's preoccupation with Watergate caused it to ignore more important problems, such...
...Awoke in a kind of vision," he jot ted in his diary in 1931. "It was like the Annunciation! Suddenly I saw what photography could be ... a tremendously potent pure art form." His effort was to take photography away from its documentary role. A kind of ecstatic nature worship has provided the impetus for Adams' work since the '30s, not only on the large scale but on the small as well: witness an image of stems floating on black water, a pattern as subtle and vivacious as those of old Japanese textiles...
...Robert Curtis, 24, and Edward Paul Mason, 23, had been members of plane-spotting clubs since they were teenagers. In late September they took leave of their jobs in London and went to Yugoslavia. There they spent six days driving about the country, stopping at a dozen airfields to jot down registrations, types and numbers of all the aircraft they...
...died of starvation." Then, reminding his audience to vote for the symbol of the boat in the country's first national election, he asked them "to put up both your hands if you have confidence in me." A forest of hands shot up, and lusty shouts of "Jot Bangla!" (Victory to Bengal) rang...
...could pass nicely for an orientation film to be shown at a psychoanalysts' convention. A study of Oedipal torments in upper-middle-class Manhattan, it is so scrupulous about establishing psychological explanations for each turn of the plot that even the most casual viewer may feel compelled to jot down a few notes...