Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facts," says Voice of America Director and onetime NBC Correspondent John Chancellor, "but television is the transmission of experience in its rawest form." Putting the pageantry of a Kennedy or a Churchill funeral into countless living rooms, is an achievement that the most moving newspaper description cannot duplicate; the sight of a young Dominican being shot in the back by a U.S. paratrooper can jolt the home viewer far more than any account of the same tragedy in print...
...powerful force encouraging social ferment. Early in the civil rights revolution, Negro activists made it perfectly clear that wittingly or unwittingly, the TV cameraman was their ally. Marches were staged and demonstrations timed to get full coverage. By reporting the whole movement, TV added to its momentum. The sight of Bull Connor's dogs attacking Birmingham Negroes served as a catalyst for the conscience of most of the nation...
Message of Urgency. The very sight of Safer, gaunt and haggard, out there in the midst of battle, brought the war to the screen with undeniable immediacy. It testified...
...same time, America's popularization of psychology is doing much to destroy the mystique that used to surround the psychiatrist. So is humor, from the countless stand-up-comics' jokes ("A psychoanalyst is a Jewish doctor who hates the sight of blood"), to the literary satires that are themselves becoming stock (Lillian Ross's Vertical and Horizontal). The mind doctor is looking more and more like any other pro with a job to do-a job not free from the pressure of automation. M.I.T. once programmed a computer to talk via typewriter like a psychiatrist. Excerpts from...
...last we add sight to sound...