The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vag...ue blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul, I would be a good fountain, a good well-head,... Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profun...dity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails lea...ving one's ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one's life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one's "real" life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »