Word: purveyors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, the cinema has been a primary hotbed. As a purveyor of mass culture, it is surpassed only by television--which will yet have its time and place as a battleground. In its ability to create the illusion of reality, the cinema surpasses even most live entertainment. It is easily accessible, yet a conscious act of choice must be made to gain access: a viewer must go to a theatre and pay admission. Well-made films are too expensive to allow for individual purchase and ownership on a mass basis--hence, the ongoing necessity of "public exhibition." For all these...
Coase seems to find little virtue in any form of journalism ("It deals with sensation and scandal, things that can be made entertaining or amusing"). He depicts the press collectively as a self-serving purveyor of misinformation. While journalists presume a high moral standard for others, they are willing to publish material drawn from "stolen" documents. Newspaper editors demand total freedom of expression for themselves, but were for years generally silent about Government restraints on their competitors in broadcasting...
What Cooke does include is very good indeed. He is not simply an urbane purveyor of condensed data but a reporter, with a gift for getting down on paper the human content of what he sees. Here he is on Franklin Roosevelt, who was paralyzed by polio at 39: "Yet, throughout the twelve years of his presidency, the press, including the inveterate smart alecks among the still and newsreel photographers, respected a convention unlikely to be honored today; they never photographed him in movement. I saw him once being lifted out of his car like a sack of potatoes...
...Washington the purveyor to the White House staff, Bernard Goldstein, protested the price freeze by refusing to supply President Nixon with his usual choice cuts, and directors of the Cattlemen's Hall of Fame in New Braunfels, Texas, promptly elected Goldstein Man of the Month. Jails, hospitals and college cafeterias will have to cut down on servings of meat and stretch their meals with macaroni and plentiful, reasonably priced seasonal produce, including potatoes, snap beans, corn, squash, cucumbers, bananas, peaches, cantaloupes and nectarines. At least two U.S. institutions, however, vowed to pay any price or bear any burden...
...purveyor of harmony in a region of no war, no peace is Iranian-born Abraham ("Abie") Nathan, a former Israeli air force pilot. After making a financial killing with an American-style restaurant in Tel Aviv, in the late 1960s Nathan developed an insatiable hunger for peace. Three times he flew to Egypt, unsuccessfully trying for interviews with Gamal Abdel Nasser. Undeterred, he circled the globe promoting peace...