Word: pendulums
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...accession with cries of alarm or should have treated the pardon routinely. News judgment is the most subjective of exercises; one editor's excess is another's sobriety. But Shaw's overall appraisal seems valid. Coverage of major running stories too often does take on a pendulum effect. The encouraging thing is that more and more journalists are worried about...
Chile has now fallen victim to a further swing of the pendulum ever-moving between past and future. Those who would use the past to create a new future have temporarily succumbed to the indiscriminate forces of the modern age. But the hope of Chile, in its fading from reality into history and from life into literature, becomes a new piece in a puzzle perpetually being pieced together. While in Europe and the U.S. the horizon is circumscribed by the steel and concrete of ever-rising skyscrapers, in Latin America the vistas for the future are unlimited. There the mills...
...been impossible. Now a University of Chicago research team reports that it has found a way, almost as simple as the hammer-and-knee-jerk reflex test, to do both. The test involves observing the patient's eye movements as he follows the swing of a pendulum...
Sometimes, I feel I'd almost prefer that system again (as a reader). What happened to it, of course, was that the pendulum swung the other way both in connection with attitudes toward the medium (movies began to be called films), and attitudes toward journalism. The rationale for the latter was very simple: Since reviewing cannot help but be in very large measure a matter of personal taste anyway, why not drop the facade of objective reporting, and let the reviewer display his personality...
This series "is like a pendulum kind of thing" Essick said. "It has been on Yale's side and now it has swung over to ours...