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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOURNALISM is often accused of emphasizing bad news while slighting coverage of encouraging developments. There is some justice in this charge. It is part of the human condition that disaster arouses more interest than quiet improvement. Yet the positive gets its share of print - more than is generally realized. This week's TIME is not exactly brimming over with cheer: there is war, murder or attempted murder in several varieties, skulduggery and disease. But like most issues, it also contains a variety of modest good tidings...
...addition to the indignities of physical ghettoization, must we blacks now submit to linguistic and grammatical apartheid by having our children exposed to Black English wrongly set before them in print in our schools? Schools must meet their responsibility for preparing our young to compete effectively in the world of affairs where Standard English is the norm. Dialects should be left to novelists and songwriters...
...CRIME. "We see it in print, hear it from the pulpit, from Marxist socialist professors, that people commit crime because they're underprivileged. I went to school barefoot in the snow and ice, [but] I didn't shoot a policeman. I didn't hold up any store. You commit [crime] because of sin in your life...
...keenly competitive auto business, where advertising hyperbole often spouts like steam from a cracked radiator, the latest Datsun promotion offers a soothing change. It is a coolly understated print and broadcast campaign aimed at improving the environment and showing critics that automakers do care about ecology, as well as boosting sales. In one television commercial, Nature Photographer Ansel Adams strolls through a woodland scene, stresses the need to save the nation's forests and asks viewers to "Drive a Datsun, plant a tree...
...Lucille Rivers, the Julia Child of sewing, is seen daily on 100 local stations throughout the country, and draws an amazing 20,000 letters a week. Textilers are advertising as never before, wooing home sewers on the air and in print. Department stores, hurt by the proliferation of fabric stores, are pushing their own pins and needles with fashion contests and sew-ins accompanied by rock bands to attract teenagers. Singer dropped its sewing classes some years ago and began to retail stereos as well as sewing machines to pump up profits. Now the company has reintroduced its classes, with...