Word: media
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rhythm that carries one image vigorously into the next. The flow is swept along, too, by the apt and fetching musical score of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian master of the age in which the scene is set. The lively songs of the mounte banks are cribbed from some old com media dell' arte notes, except for a pert little tarantella by Musical Director Gino Marinuzzi. Color and sound - and indeed most of the elements of the film - are matched and inbraided with loving care...
...ordinary people . . . who win wars for us," shrugs off a job even the feudal lords did not shirk: they, at least, usually realized that raising artistic standards was not alone "the problem of the schools" but the moral and social responsibility of those whose money supported artistic media...
...attacking enemy bombers. These facets of defense cannot be set up in the vacuum of a laboratory. They depend on public support for instigation and effectiveness. Such support can only come from public realization that the biggest bomb is not in itself the best answer to defense problems. Entertainment media were used with great effect in the past war; now, with the addition of television, the defense situation could be made more lucid and vital to the American people than ever before...
...American life. From being one of the most unorganized, the most invertebrate of nations in 1860, we have grown into the most powerfully and efficiently organized people on the globe . . . Our thinking in 1864 was still individual thinking. Today it is largely mass thinking, shaped and colored by mass media of unparalleled and sometimes dismaying potency . . . Our national outlook, once that of the individualistic pioneer, has become a social outlook. Without this pervasive internal change, our new position in the world would have been impossible...
...Actually, there is no mystery about the fate of the Ten Tribes. Most of those exiled to Media died of harsh treatment; the Assyrians were the Nazis of their day; the few survivors intermarried with and were swallowed up by the natives of the region...