Word: media
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...integral part of the humanities and as such must assume a role of prominence in the context of higher education," the committee said. "Perhaps at no moment in history since the invention of printing has man's communication with his fellow man been so largely taken over by visual media as today...
Staying Power. From its start, the strike was marked by hatred and intransi gence between the negotiators; each side underestimated the staying power of the other. Inside the conference room, government mediators headed by Federal Media tion Chief Joseph F. Finnegan listened in dismay as the negotiators battled not to ward settlement but farther from it. Once, a union spokesman looked across at a Westinghouse official and bellowed: "You are a goddam tramp." On another occasion, I.U.E. President James Carey strode out of the room after calling Westinghouse "the dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest company on the globe" Management dropped such remarks...
...kicked back part of their commissions to publishers, or split fees with advertisers. A.A.A.A. also helped to change the agency's original role as a publishers' space broker. Today's ad agency works not for the publishers but for the advertiser, helps him find markets, choose media, check results. By standardizing the agency fee at 15%, A.A.A.A. virtually eliminated price wars in the advertising industry...
...projects include $400,000 to the Southern Regional Council for offices in twelve states to further "community education in intergroup relations"; $300,000 for a survey by Cornell University's Clinton Rossiter (author of Conservatism in America) on Communist influence on U.S. religion, Government, education, arts and mass media; $185,000 for a study by Harvard's Samuel A. Stouffer of popular attitudes toward internal Communism and civil liberties...
...accordance with what is considered the best "mass-media" policy, the Episcopal Theological School and the University's Government Department have scheduled respectively Arnold Toynbee and Andro Siegfried to speak tonight at 8 p.m. As a reader of the middle class Luce publication, Time, I wonder if these schools haven't been unduly influenced by that magazine's expose of the current NBC-CBS Television talent duel, which involves putting their respective strongest Nielson-rated programs on at the same hours. Perhaps all can be explained in that the Government Department, although late in arriving on the scene, is waging...