Word: media
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predicted that media for the new images might be the electronic organ, sound wave instruments, and that the ability to write music directly onto film might hasten the changes. But, comforting his audience, he said: "We, the composers, are the ones who must give meaning to whatever sonorous images the engineers can invent...
...this age Americans are leaders in world trade as well as in world politics. We have the most goods to supply, the most funds with which to buy. We have made a promise of better living to millions. We have the resources to fulfill that promise and the advertising media to place our goods where they are needed. We have, I think, the imagination and the energy...
...correspondence reflects a growing lack of faith by a large segment of our population in the responsibility and moral fiber of our own process of government. Truth has ceased to be keystone to the arch of our national conscience and propaganda has replaced it as the rallying media for public support. Corruption and rumors of corruption have shaken the people's trust in the integrity of those administering the civil power...
...documents were dug out of files, declassified and checked. One was a Dec. 6 memorandum directing that "officials overseas, including military commanders," were to "clear all but routine statements with their departments and to refrain from direct communications on military or foreign policy with newspapers, magazines, or other publicity media." Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk hurried over from the State Department, and General Omar Bradley arrived from the Pentagon. By 9:30, the documents and statements were ready and taken over to Blair House. Harry Truman looked them over and signed...
MacLeish said that should the project be realized, University fostered participation in drama and music, and in the future, radio and television, should be encouraged. "This participation should not be of a technical nature"; MacLeish said, "but neither can the University afford to be indifferent to these media of mass communication...