Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something to watch for today is the effect of Princeton's red clay field on the Harvard players. "When you're not used to it, running on that stuff can be very tiring," said Getchell...
...depressing to have around. Lots of people I know don't have television sets, but they also don't have telephones." Others ignore TV because they are afraid of getting hooked. Mrs. Jay Sheveloff. 30, of Boston, has seen the "horrible" specter of her in-laws watching continually; she refuses to have TV around -at least until her husband finishes his Ph.D. A number of nonowners ascribe their resistance to religious motives. A devout Episcopal couple from Florida, who prefer anonymity, consider TV "contaminating." None of their five children (now aged 13 to 25) was allowed to watch...
...families know perfectly well what they are missing. Sets may burn in their offices during the World Series or space shots, and many who would not have a receiver in the house watch on the sly at their neighbors'. This suggests that it is frequently not TV per se that is objectionable, but the quality of everyday programming. "What I've seen," says Mrs. Paul Scott, 27, of suburban Los Angeles, "has really frightened me. There's this tremendous emphasis on materialism. And of course the violence." Mrs. Jan Rogers of Tallahassee, a mother of two young...
...describes actions of our society in vivid, dreamlike images. The people of the world must feel "like passengers in a supersonic jet liner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passle of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat." The 1954 Supreme Court decision was "a major surgical operation performed by nine men in black robes on the racial Maginot Line which is imbedded as deep as sex or the lust for lucre in the schismatic American psyche. This piece of social surgery ... is more marvelous than a successful heart transplant would...
...from our curious history in this society, we should have learned to avoid involvement in polemics that pit black against black to the detriment of our common struggle. For in this way we become the true "pawns," while the decision-making forces in the Harvard setting--and surely they watch bemused by the spectacle, even under the guise of dispassionate objectivity--remain unindicted for their intellectual negligence...