Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commercials also have deeper, more serious impact. In a discussion of the causes of last year's ghetto riots, the Kerner Report suggested that the enticements of TV commercials, "endlessly flaunted before the eyes of the Negro poor and the jobless ghetto youth," were an important inducement to the state of unrest. Opinion Researcher Mervin Field goes so far as to suggest that commercials constitute "a looter's shopping list...
Strategies vary, but basic to every Dreadful D campaign is the oldest device of all: crisis-making. Thus by sheer repetition, the hawkers suggest that the primary cause of air pollution is bad breath and that the real yellow menace is not Red China but stained teeth. And judging by Katy Winters' early-warning nose, half the nation needs to be told an Ice Blue Secret...
Before I indicate how this has been accomplished, let me suggest some of the problems. The celebrated critic Hazlitt began his comments on the play with these words: "If we were to part with any of the author's comedies, it should be this." Certainly the work ranks near the bottom in the Shakespearean canon...
...Your excellent article on guns referred to my study of homicide in Philadelphia in 1958 and quoted a statement the National Rifle Association has often used to suggest that I, as a criminologist, favor their position about gun legislation. You further indicated that "Wolfgang has since modified that view...
...characters and the ambiance that have given baseball its mythic quality. Bernard Malamud's The Natural was a strikingly effective allegory of the baseball hero as a contemporary Sir Percival who in the end is destroyed by the myth-hungerers. Coover is less morally emphatic. He does suggest that God cannot forestall man's doom, and that man can destroy himself when he relinquishes reality for illusion...