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Word: tv (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asylum." That's a big change for Mungo, who once took on the whole administration of B. U. as editor of the B. U. News. who founded and then tried to bust up Liberation News Service, who for a long time was the ideal Radical Voice for your TV show or street corner rally. He's still a newsman, but the news has changed: "Strong personal generators can be had for under $35... there is free music in the spheres, not to mention the public libraries." He's still moralizing, but the pitch is individualistic. "What you think...

Author: By Rufus Graeme, | Title: From the Shelf The New Babylon Times | 10/9/1969 | See Source »

...Room War is not the staggering charnel house we live in and which lives on us. It is that small, luminous, oracular, electronic avatar called television. Arlen is in passionate agreement with Richard Goodwin who writes: "We pass through all this tumult seated before the inexorable shadows of a TV set-certainly the greatest psychic disturber ever created...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: The Living Room War | 10/9/1969 | See Source »

...views is to appeal to the fiscal conservatism of the voters. Harrington, for example, widely publicized figures on military spending and especially on ABM (still recalled with rancor in north of Boston suburbs). Within the limits of patriotism, defense figures can be made to seem truly appalling. In the TV debates and often on the circuit, Harrington frequently reminded his listeners that and23 billion was wasted on obsolete weapons over the last fifteen years. With the Democrats out of office, the left can feel at case in attacking federal waste...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Brass TacksHarrington's Strange Majority | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

...butt of the pistol in his right hand. A man in the crowd says to his children, "Look, there's Judge Roy Bean." His children don't know who Judge Roy Bean is so they don't get very excited. The man remembers that the Judge Roy Bean TV series stopped before they would have been watching television...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Welcome to the Dallas Wax Museum | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

Sporadic anarchy broke out spontaneously in the Yard at midnight last night, reaching physical- but not metaphysical- levels of action. It was a TV newscast- watchers' kind of revolt carried out by freshmen who had thought about their alienation but never really experienced...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: 500 Freshmen 'Riot' in the Yard, But They Stay on Paved Paths | 10/7/1969 | See Source »

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