Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Opposed to the dim uncertainty of the world of the educated man is the bright little circle of light in which the quiz-show contestant basks in his isolation booth. All is certainty there. One need not worry or be distressed. Only those questions are asked which have answers, and...
As he was getting ready to testify this week before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, Van Doren broke his silence briefly: "I've been getting just wonderful letters from wonderful people. I put the good letters in one pocket and the bad in another. When I looked I...
Beyond all the charges and countercharges that rocked television, there was evidence of real concern for the corruption of a major communications medium. The Christian Science Monitor's call for a government-established network, run like the BBC by a "public corporation" and paid for by the licensing of...
There is sure proof, wrote Lippmann, "that there is something radically wrong with the fundamental national policy under which TV operates." The U.S. laissezfaire policy, he argued, has turned TV into "the creature, the servant, and indeed the prostitute, of merchandising."
"We should not," said Columnist Lippmann, "shrink from the idea that such a network would have to be subsidized and endowed . . . Why should it not be subsidized and endowed as are the universities and the public schools and the exploration of space and modern medical research, and indeed the churches...