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Word: media (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the solution. It's a problem that the news people will have to solve themselves. I have no right to decide what newsmen go with the President to Russia, and I don't want that right. That must be decided by the news media. But unless we straighten out this problem, we'll have nothing but chaos. And chaos can lead only to the weakening of our free press and our prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble in Numbers | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...hell of a note to come back to school on. On top of picking classes, I have to lose my whole way of existence to the masses and their media. It has become painful to be seen in sneakers unless you are carrying a basketball. Keep your beard and some little Cliffie thinks it calls for a humorous comment...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Crowded Lonely | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...less real: If the Biblical mythology has crumbled for most of the population, what heroic archetypes are left to summon men to greatness? are there to be no images of human possibility commonly available to men beyond the mediocre range afforded by popular literature and the mass media? If the light of the Godhead has gone out, what is to save us from an everlasting night of spiritual squalor, timidity, and sloth? What remains to command human loyalty and aspiration beyond the interests of one's particular generation and narrow milieu...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...John Updike is an unusually gifted writer. His descriptions are fresh and evocative, his epigrams have flair, and his sense of the fashions of the times is unerring (he with a job in media and she with Scandinavian tastes, favoring natural wood and natural childbirth''). Unfortunately. Author Updike plays his talents cool; his passion for understatement seems to rule out all passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cool, Coo! World | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Murray noted with alarm the "flood of discontent and self-depreciation these days" and the "mythology of the mass media--a mythology of pride, greed, and envy." To deal with this deplorable situation, Murray urged the formation of a new mythology, to be embodied in a "truly new testament," a kind of Bible for modern times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Murray Asks For 'New Mythology' | 6/9/1959 | See Source »

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