Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrives so infrequently at conclusions about television's actual role in adult life that the piece seems ill-fitted for an analytical journal. Instead of coming to terms with the crucial role television has played, Rosenblatt adopts the posture of those television critics who prefer to deal with the subject from on high. Thus, instead of a focused critique of the cult of money in Let's Make a Deal, we get an ugly description of the audience's civility or lack of it. He settles for an utterly superficial treatment of television newscasters: "There are no more grown...
...slung the albatross of sexism around Mailer's own neck, and he must have considered that intentionally reconjuring its specter in this book would put a large part of his potential readership in a stalking mood--not good, when a writer is out to purvey his product, and the subject of this anthology has the sales promise of Marilyn Monroe...
Without facing up to it in either himself or his subject, Mailer projects his intolerance of the opposite sex onto Miller, exaggerating the latter's drift at least once over...
...World War II constituted political obstacles that may well have been insurmountable. In any case, a sophisticated analysis of the Socialist Party's decline is a task more suited to an academic than to a biographer, and Swanberg is more interested in providing a complete, detailed study of his subject than he is in assaying Thomas's tactics...
...enthusiastically supported his wife's hobby of raising cocker spaniels. A staunch, and early, opponent of racial discrimination he nevertheless swam at the exclusively white Cold Spring Harbor Club, where he enjoyed the company of cold warrior brothers Allen and John Foster Dulles, whose views on practically every subject were diametrically opposed...