Word: rehashed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also constantly have to make assumptions throughout each issue about how much the reader already knows about any event or subject. These days, when so many words fill the air, when car radios repeat the news hourly on the hour and TV commentators rehash what the camera has already shown, we see no point in repeating the banal rituals of the communiqués. Sometimes, as in this week's cover story, the most significant part of the news may have escaped readers too busy to wade through columns of testimony in those newspapers which gave the subject much...
...spread our forces each week to anticipate the direction of the news, we have three separate ambitions: to deliver not just a rehash of the conspicuous happenings but to have something fresh to add to them; to spot in the unlikeliest places and widest variety of fields what is new, important and lively; and to provide a coherency and shape that will increase the reader's understanding of the random and complex events of the week. Three examples of what we try for in this week's issue...
...obituary on Violinist Fritz Kreisler appeared on page 8, an obituary on French Artist Andre Lhote on page 15. Readers anxious to discover how the new paper would deal with U.S. culture were soon disillusioned: the Observer begged the question. Theater and book reviews were shot through with a rehash of newspaper and magazine critics, a technique reminiscent of the defunct Literary Digest...
What I cannot tolerate is the evidence of moral decay in our Government-deceit and dishonesty! To think that we yell to the world that the invasion is strictly Cuban, and then publicly bemoan our failure-rehash it thoroughly! This has so thoroughly disillusioned me, I'll never fully believe our leaders again. What an awful way to feel about our wonderful country...
Calling the increased interest in politics on college campuses "reassuring," Senator Goldwater warned students against viewing the New Frontier as anything more than a rehash of the New Deal. "I lived through that other period," he said, "and we didn't come out of the Depression until World...