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Word: medias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canada's All-Purpose Prophet Marshall McLuhan, soon to be enchaired at Fordham University, has argued for years that the book is obsolescent. Unfortunately, his major testaments (The Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media), while full of ideas, were rendered virtually unreadable by soporific syntax and mastodonian metaphors. Now, with the artful aid of a graphics designer, Quentin Fiore, McLuhan gets his message across more appropriately by juxtaposing his text with pictures. The result is a punchy put-on, to be sure, but that only serves to make a point: McLuhan has never taken himself as seriously as his critics have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ultimate Non-Book | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...Cole, author of An End to Chivalry and winner of two O'Henry Awards, will speak on "The Short Story in an Age of Flashier Media" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Story | 3/2/1967 | See Source »

...White said, his own experiences in policy making sessions had showed him that there was a painstaking background work that "does not seem to come through the mass media." The President follows a detailed analytical process to arrive at these momentous decisions," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White Sees Battle Over Housing Bill | 3/1/1967 | See Source »

...What keeps New Yorkers coming to its three-building, modern "campus" in Greenwich Village is an ever-changing curriculum that is almost as contemporary as a daily newspaper. Its smorgasbord of noncredit classes ranges from "The Art of Singing Folk Songs" to the crassly commercial "What the Editor Wants: Media Placement in Public Relations." In the spring of 1965, the New School ran a course on the Warren Commission findings; this term it has a continuing series of lectures on the Viet Nam war-and it quickly signed up Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times for a 70-minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New School for Old Students | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...work. For another, it serves as a salon des refusés for aspects of the art rejected by the commercial cinema. Even though many Hollywood directors write off the experimenters as no-talent amateurs, some of their notions are already being absorbed into the visual vocabulary of the media. The men who make television commercials, for instance, regularly rent big batches of avant-garde films and ransack them for ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Art of Light & Lunacy: The New Underground Films | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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