Word: medias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DEDICATION of the Kennedy School of Government last Saturday was a sorry start for an institution that boasts it will be able to keep Harvard University in touch with the "real world." For despite all the carefully prepared media fanfare, the speeches by notables and the celebrity gala that followed, the school's administration proved that it is sadly out of touch with one of the most pressing issues of that real world: the struggle for human rights in South Africa...
PUNK ROCKERS discovered long ago that the pose of violent self-loathing is a quick ticket to media coverage and record sales. Everyone loves to read about mutilation, self-inflicted or otherwise: and if sham turns to reality, so much the better--as in the case of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, now whiling away the hours at Bellevue. After all, if rocks stars can't enact the fantasies of a lobotomized generation, who can? The problem with punk rock--the genuine, mind-rotting type--is that when it's insincere, everyone can tell; but when it's honest...
Fortunately, not all the energy that has flowed into popular music in the past two years has spent itself on spectacles like the Dead Boys' lead singer hanging himself after a show. The welter of bands that rock critics have labeled "new wave" includes musicians as well as media manipulators, geniuses as well as hypocrites...
...hair and carrying tape recorders and cameras turned up at her Manhattan apartment building, asking tenants about her habits and the layout of her apartment. Since then, she has been shadowed by two men with shaved heads who told her they were from the Synanon Committee for Responsible American Media (SCRAM). She quotes one of them as saying: "The goal of SCRAM is to get your life...
Both were launched by numerical minorities, both ultimately succeeded and both taught the larger American public lessons about the efficacy of organization, demonstration, passionate dramatics and exploitation of the mass media. The tacticians of those movements, dealing with fateful and fundamental issues, could plausibly justify using every available technique, including civil defiance. The trouble is that not only the techniques but the fervid spirit of the rights and antiwar movements are being adopted for general application in almost all social and political controversies. Some groups of Long Island residents howled and demonstrated effectively for a while against the Concorde...