Word: stott
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...Hand. Though millions of people are "extremely hostile" to Christian missionary work, said John Stott, the best-known Evangelical preacher in the Church of England, it is "neither an unwarranted intrusion into other people's privacy, nor a regrettable Christian deviation, nor the hobby of a few eccentric enthusiasts, but a central feature of the historical purpose of God." After absorbing such inspirational addresses, the students visited recruiting booths set up by 125 Protestant mission boards and attended workshops ranging from "Trends in Linguistics" to "The Hand of God in Black History...
...partisan or else heavily committed to background and interpretation, the demand for unadorned facts has rarely slackened. This taste was reinforced by our pioneering social science surveys of the early 20th century and it was further elaborated in the 1930s by a series of innovative photographers and cinematographers. William Stott of the University of Texas at Austin has recently argued that documentary journalism, broadcasting and film-along with soap operas, newsreel houses, "inside" books, photo and news magazines-appeal to an imagination that "seeks the texture of reality" by fixing upon particulars...
...party to the decision. By noon Wednesday enough buy orders had been rounded up to bring off a trade of 120,000 shares-on which the price dropped to 48, down an amazing 27⅛ points, or 36% of the stock's Monday value. Even though Wagner, Stott & Co., specialists in the stock, bought 35,000 shares for its own account, the price of the stock continued to drift down to a Wednesday close of 46½. By week's end it had recovered only to 50⅞. Veteran Wall Streeters blamed a herd instinct among institutional money...
Perhaps by pursuing some of the ramifications of simple social facts like this Stott might have provided a more serious understanding of the social context of documentary expression. If one sets out to chronicle and make plain the subtle interplay between a culture and a society, one takes on the additional burden of developing a theoretical framework, a structure of ideas and insights, that is adequate...
...attempting a coherent and illuminating analysis of thirties culture and society Stott founders on the limits of his literary perspective. Nonetheless where he is good--in discussing single examples of documentary expression from within that point of view, and particularly in his lengthy and brilliant appreciation of Agee's and Evan's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men--Stott is superb. His observations on the limitations, superficiality and self-delusions of documentary reportage are incisive. And the recognition that all but the best of documentary writers and journalists treated their subjects as pitiful objects of personal social conscience or else...