Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials who had been hunted down and indicted by Senate subcommittees. Many of these people retired to universities around the country, and a large number of them found their way to Harvard. Abruptly dislodged from the practice of internal and international politics, they were seeking, many of them, an outlet for their talents...
...conditions and the desire of station managers to provide visually interesting news film. In his winning media campaign for New York's Democratic Senate nomination. Representative Richard Ottinger called so many news conferences, based on what television newsmen felt was solid research, that the New York City CBS outlet found that it had unintentionally been overcovering him. The coverage was deliberately cut back...
...either alternative being a catharsis that would allow us to dismiss and assimilate the work immediately. Instead he leaves on the screen the formulated proposition, the existential choice, to be or not to be a revolutionary, the ultimate opportunity and necessity for real action. (There is no safe outlet here, no wish-fulfillment fantasy-exorcism that Antonioni provides in Zabriskie Point...
Secondly, if many young people were actually mad enough to do something dangerous, whatever the motivation, they should have been guided into something safer. The image in the Battle of Algiers of organization members checking a riot is apt. The crowd should be restrained and given a vicarious outlet, perhaps something that could have been seen and heard around the Square. But they should not have been encouraged to go to the Square-as these guys attempted-for a physical confrontation with the police...
...three-week campaign on local television stations in 43 cities. Their aim: to generate public pressure for passage of the amendment when it comes up for a vote later next month. Whatever the result, the notion of using commercials to sell political or social viewpoints could open a new outlet for advocates and a fresh source of income for television...