Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Golden Age of TV, Jackie Gleason, Ball was a larger-than-life talent uniquely suited to the small screen. Her signature series, I Love Lucy, and its successors endured more than two decades in prime time, from 1951 to 1974, one of the few immutables in a sea of social change. Lucy, seen in more than 80 countries and in perpetual reruns in the U.S., has a cumulative audience in the tens of billions...
...Social Analysis 10, that wonderful utility-maximizing world where all markets equilibrate and labor-market discrimination is impossible, claims to attempt a value-free analysis of economics...
...harsh reaction to poor grades is a symptom of deeper problems. "The cards may be an emotional lightning rod," explains child psychologist David Elkind of Tufts University, who notes that "grades are a concrete embodiment of many issues." For one thing, bad grades can unleash parents' anxieties about their social status and their children's prospects. To the poor, success in school offers a way for children to escape impoverished lives. Middle-class parents push their offspring to surpass their own accomplishments. And wealthy, well-educated people routinely expect stellar performances from youngsters...
...anniversary is not locating the proper date but encompassing adequately a medium whose impact has been so broad, so overpowering, so unfathomable. What should TV's birthday revelers commemorate? TV as an entertainment medium? As a chronicler of our times? A business enterprise? A technological device? A social force...
Instead, the exhibit treats TV as a chapter in American social and economic history: it shows how the medium worked its way into the American home and what changes it wrought there. In the view of curator Larry Bird, who wrote the show's text, television was not just a masterpiece of marketing, it was a key shaper of the postwar consumer age. TV helped induce Americans, still reeling from the Depression and a world war, to start buying again...