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... television that it has been nurtured and brought to a perverse matu- rity . For on television , nearly every half hour is a discrete event , separated in content , context , and emotional texture from what precedes and follows it . In ...
... television that it has been nurtured and brought to a perverse matu- rity . For on television , nearly every half hour is a discrete event , separated in content , context , and emotional texture from what precedes and follows it . In ...
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... television , and especially television news . We have become so accustomed to its disconti- nuities that we are no longer struck dumb , as any sane person would be , by a newscaster who having just reported that a nuclear war is ...
... television , and especially television news . We have become so accustomed to its disconti- nuities that we are no longer struck dumb , as any sane person would be , by a newscaster who having just reported that a nuclear war is ...
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... television would be our main line to the drug , he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil's observation that " Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World . " Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody . I do not ...
... television would be our main line to the drug , he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil's observation that " Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World . " Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody . I do not ...
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Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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