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...peevish and supercilious-name the geniuses of 1774, and I submit it. The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru...
...that the violence that is sure to come will do harm to blacks because it will be undirected," says Gilbert Brown, a Brixton community worker. For the most part there are no national black leaders, and the young take as their heroes Afro-American leaders like Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The black community center in Manchester proudly bears the title "The George Jackson Center...
...Perry Mason show been castrated? The quality of television declines every year. The "vast wasteland" former FCC chairman Newton Minow described in 1961 has by now been sown with salt. In 1962, The Defenders aired a show dealing with abortion. The advertisers complained, but public letters to CBS were overwhelmingly in favor of the show's sensitive consideration of the problem. Eleven years later, all the dramatic series of the early 60s are gone, and the controversy is over a stupid show called Maude...
...page rebuttal of the A.M.A. allegations. Two months later, the A.M.A. countered the counterattack and formally asked the FCC to investigate what it termed the "distortion and slanting of news" in the NBC documentary. For its counsel, the A.M.A. hired former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who once condemned commercial network programming as a "vast wasteland." The A.M.A. also discussed the case with the new National News Council, an independent body established to adjudicate complaints against news organizations...
...picture of my old high school girlfriend on John Harvard's overused lap was from the fall of 1969. The picture of my closest friend astride the railing of 'The Ranch' in Newton was taken a few weeks ago. In between these moments the student movement came and went; Harvard won and lost two games to Yale; Nixon beat McGovern; dope and acid waxed and waned and waxed again. The moments that have been lost vastly outnumber those saved, and what I couldn't find as I looked is significant as well...