Word: media
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post: "One of the troubles with Government news handouts, necessary as they often may be, is that they tend to discourage original reporting and newsgathering enterprise . . . No one can quarrel with the Pentagon that on news of 'transcendent importance' there should be simultaneous release to all news media. But there are relatively few such stories-not enough surely, to warrant a general and vague rule susceptible of misrepresentation and abuse. The only result of the order, it seems to us, will be to put a premium on irresponsibility...
Gropius, while at the University, encouraged his students to work on construction projects during the summers. The "Fundamentals of Design" course, which for two-years was a requirement in the school, was the further attempt to familiarize students with materials. By working with colors, metals, and organic media, Design students would begin to understand the builder's problems. He would learn what materials and colors snit certain constructions, and which figures are the best for particular forms of space...
Song and dance are clearly not Miss Davis' media. The producers should have recognized the limits of her considerable versatility and made better use of her appealing personality and skill as a comedienne. A revue, not a musical comedy, Two's Company might have starred Miss Davis in a number of comic sketches and wrapped the attractive package with the usual musical scenes. Instead, the show leans heavily on the fragile crutch of her singing talents...
...full statement of the premises which guided Matthiessen's own work. In this lecture he summarized his belief in the critic's duty to live in his own time, rather than in the "closed garden" of isolation from his society; his appreciation of the dangers and possibilities of mass media of communication; and his conviction that the artist "by perceiving what his country is and is not in comparison with other countries . . . can help contribute, in this time of fierce national tensions, to the international understanding without which civilization will not survive...
...photographers covering the Republican National Committee meeting in Chicago last week, the news was bad; from its meeting to consider disputed delegates, the committee had barred workers for "paraphernalia media" (GOPatter for radio and TV men and photographers). While everyone else was protesting, LIFE Photographer Francis Miller, 46, a veteran of 25 years as a newsman, went quietly to work to cover the meeting in his own way. Miller, who has often snapped pictures where photographers were banned, is an old hand at concealing the weapons of his trade. (Three years ago, armed with a proxy and a hidden camera...