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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JEREMIADS SUCH AS these Newman makes against the state-of-the-union's language are as old as the day Babylonian scholars compiled a text on "Style and Form of Hieroglyphics." Any nabob with alert ears and open eyes can natter negativism about decadence in American, verbal or otherwise. More important than the fact of degeneracy are the reasons behind it. Newman does make a stab at why the American language has become so cheapened. While Watergate was making its contribution, he writes, "a different process has been under way in another sector, where respect for rules has been breaking...
...Black Virgin Mountain. Nui Ba Den is only seven miles from a far more important provincial capital, Tay Ninh (pop. 250,000). If the Communists can hold the mountain, they will be in a strong position to launch a Phuoc Binh-style artillery barrage on the city, thus making it the next target in the Communist effort to further weaken the Saigon government...
Much of AM America's advertised "bubble, spark and style," however, is programmed to come from Edwards, 31, a tall, red-haired former actress with the happy-peppy air of a sorority house activities chairman. For the past three years she prepped as co-host on a local Los Angeles TV talk show. Encouraging absolutely no comparison with Today's Barbara Walters, Doty emphasizes that "Stephanie is not a journalist"-a fact instantly clear as she blew most of her bubble in an inept interview with Psychiatrists Karl and Roy Menninger of Topeka's Menninger Clinic. (Sample...
...commercial networks had virtually no economic specialists among their correspondents; as a medium, TV is handicapped when it covers any complex story that does not lend itself to exciting video. The standard half-hour evening news show allows time for little more than undigested statistics delivered machine-gun style and stock scenes of unemployment lines and supermarket aisles. Lately the networks have begun to do more specials on the recession. NBC broadcast an hour-long review on New Year's Day; to moderate a discussion between two economists, NBC borrowed Public Broadcasting's Rukeyser rather than relying...
...rather irresponsible kind of Depression Chic. New Times magazine showed on its cover imaginary breadlines at McDonald's. Philadelphia magazine published a "Survival Guide to the Next Depression." U.S. News & World Report, which is hardly trendy or sensational, recently examined the likelihood of another 1929-style crash. The cover line, "What a Depression Is Really Like-Scenes from the 1930s," was a bit alarming for the sober story inside. In fact, economists generally agree that a return to the horrors of the '30s-when unemployment hit 25% as measured then (it is now 7.1%) and industrial production dropped...