Word: romm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third forum, on "Imperialism: Outside and In," is at 8 p.m. tonight, in Romm 54.100. Earth Sciences Bldg. at M.I.T., and will feature an unreleased film commissioned by National Educational Television, titled "Who Invited US?" Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, will speak...
...ROMM is extremely aware of tangential developments and concerns in her examination of the underground press, entertaining very diverse topics and historical issues which she relates to the growth of the underground press as a medium for the ideas of the counter-culture and a reinvigorated, youthful left...
Despite its offensiveness to her. Mrs. Romm defends the movement and street corner press as a legitimate, though rash, expression of deeply felt emotion-"reactions to an America that many of the nation's young feel has not lived up to the promises of their Sunday school sermons or their civies class lessons." To her the underground press is a symptom of a sick society a cancer-like attack on the American body politic. In other words, the underground press- "salacious, hilarious, outrageous, desperate, philosophical, didactic"- is a reactive phenomenon that reflects an ailing culture...
...press itself has been a fleeting and sometimes unstable form of communication, as community, high school, black, G.I., hippie, and radical papers are born and die with amazing frequency. New printing methods- notably the "coldtype" use of the offset press- have encouraged the proliferation of what seems to Mrs. Romm to be an unattractively vibrant genre of protest journalism...
...Romm notes, the most powerful push for a new form of journalism has been a growing political alienation to a stagnant, wasteful society. Historians will puzzle for years on the strangely a-typical developments among the children of a well-fed, money-obsessed American bourgeoisie. The Open Conspiracy, despite the obvious limitations of its gentle bias, and occasional over-sensationalization of its material, provides an interesting addition to a limited number of books on an exceedingly fascinating subject...