A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an ea...rthquake, but an interview.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... research is never completed ... Around the corner lurks another possibility of interview, another book to read, a courthouse t...o explore, a document to verify.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
TV's exploration of the game of consumption and sociability is, by the nature of the medium, on a far more subtle level than anyth...ing ever done by the movies. It can dramatize and expose and suggest ways of transcending social banality that are impossible to the screen, largely because of the very "actuality" and "interview" format of TV that at the same time produces so much of its rubbish. It is terrible but true that TV has probably elevated ten times as many family conversations in Sourwater, Georgia, as it has degraded there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[If] Playboy's Hugh Hefner has done nothing else for American culture, he has given it two of the great lies of the twentieth cent...ury: "I buy it for the fiction" and "I buy it for the interview."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The desire of most parents is first and foremost to do what is best for their children. Every interview with a mother or father co...nfirms this, every letter written by a parent breathes this deep-seated wish, "I hope I am doing the right thing for my child." This is real and honest, and at the very base of parenthood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It must be confessed that the Pilgrims possessed but few of the qualities of the modern pioneer. They were not the ancestors of th...e American backwoodsmen. They did not go at once into the woods with their axes. They were a family and church, and were more anxious to keep together, though it were on the sand, than to colonize a New World.... It is true they were busy at first about their building, and were hindered in that by much foul weather; but a party of emigrants to California or Oregon, with no less work on their hands,--and more hostile Indians,--would do as much exploring the first afternoon, and the Sieur de Champlain would have sought an interview with the savages, and examined the country as far as the Connecticut, and made a map of it, before Billington had climbed his tree.... Nevertheless, the Pilgrims were pioneers, and the ancestors of pioneers, in a far grander enterprise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a... Ph.D.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »