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Word: televisionâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fact that the U.S. has begun to understand, and to measure, TV's power over the imagination as well as over behavior. It is, of course, irresponsible to make TV the heavy in every social psychodrama, from urban uprisings to the Viet Nam War. Yet who can dispute that television??day and nighttime­is a child's sixth sense of the world? Watching a child wide-eyed before the screen, who can doubt the anecdote of Plato's cave, where creatures were chained forever watching shadow play, while the true world moved outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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