Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television characters (vs. 1% or less in real life), and that 65% of them are involved in violence. The damage, Gross argues, does not lie in rare incitements to acts of violence, but in the attitudes and views of the world engendered by what they call "heavy" TV watching. In-depth testing of a sample of 600 proved heavy viewers are more fearful, anxious and suspicious of the world than "light" viewers. Significantly more of them replied "almost always" when asked, "How often is it all right to hit someone if you're mad at them?" As to reading...
Professors Jerome and Dorothy Singer, who head Yale University's Family Television Research Center, have been studying groups of several hundred three-and four-year-olds as they watch TV at home and in nursery school. They feel that heavy TV viewing stunts the growth of the imagination in the crucial ages between three and five. Such children make up fewer games and imaginary playmates...
...lack of necessity to watch costs would be inflationary in any business. In health care it has been catastrophically inflationary, because powerful underlying forces?economic, psychological and technical?would be working to drive up bills even if a determined effort were made to hold them down. Among these forces...
...group of diagnostic laboratory cardiologists and radiologists. If the patient is to be operated on, the surgeons, the anesthesiologist, the pump team, the blood bank in the institution that feeds the pump are involved. The patient goes to a special recovery room with specially trained people to watch him. He's there five days with round-the-clock care. He goes to a rehabilitation unit for the rest of his recovery...
About 250 people gathered at the State Street Bank's downtown club last night to watch a relayed telecast of the election returns. The Canadian consulate in Boston sponsored the affair...