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...tumult and name-calling ended when the latest Nielsen report came in. By its own calculation, CBS had won for the 15th consecutive season-by .2%. "This is the greatest thrill of my 21 years in programming," crowed Mike. In his exultation he added: "I think I could have elected Humphrey." Over at NBC, Paul Klein snorted: "They didn't win the season. They won their season. This is what McLuhan called 'the dinosaur effect.' CBS has blown to its biggest size just before extinction." Industry evolution has indeed swung toward the Klein emphasis on demographics...
Please send a little girl for me to thrill. A girl who wants my kisses and my arms, A girl with all the charms...
Troilus screams that the worth of Helen is infinite, which means indeterminate, capable of justifying the furthest thrill of insanity. He believes he is realistic when he calls for the preservation of "manhood and honor" by the vigorous prosecution of an irreversible war. That war is stark violence. Does this begin to sound compellingly relevant? As litility devours reason, the Renaissance heroic ideal of wise action becomes food for unheroic savagery. Troilus eats up reason in seeking honor as "the wide world's revenue." Hector dimly sees that appealing to infinite abstractions may insensibly transform public standards into an anarchy...
...seen." Cooper explained. Spider nodded solemnly. Cooper talked like a beatnik as far as Spider could tell, but he tried to overlook it and passed him a panel from a case of Coke so that Cooper might autograph it. "Alan Cooper," he wrote. It wasn't as much a thrill for Spider as shaking Don Everly's hand at the Tea Party, but it was, nevertheless, exciting...
...Some of the targets of trashing (from Krackerjacks to Design Research) suggest a reaction against the materialism and commercialism pervading our culture. The malaise of decadent affluence, which underlies the recent history of American unrest, is too diffuse to direct blame or formulate demands. Other factors behind the riot-thrill-seeking, idle curiousity, or free shots at expensive store merchandise-are difficult to reduce to excuses or solutions. But they merely fanned the original spark, which is the product of the infuriating indifference of a power structure to moral reason and common sense...