Word: mcluhanizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Marshall McLuhan, 69, author, educator and apostle of the electronic age, whose impact he proclaimed in his famous aphorism, "The medium is the message"; in Toronto (see TELEVISION...
Some years ago, Marshall McLuhan made quite a splash among cocktail-party sophisticates by proclaiming that television was a "cool medium," whereas some other cultural forms were "hot media." In recent years, Peter Brook, a highly sophisticated director, and his Paris-based company Le Centre International de Créations Théatrales have devised modes by which theater can be turned into a cool medium, perhaps even stone-cold...