There are certain stereotypes that are offensive. Some of them don't worry me, though. For instance, I have always thought that Ma...mmy character in Gone with the Wind was mighty funny. And I just loved "Amos 'n' Andy" on the radio. So you see, I have enough confidence in myself that those things did not bother me. I could laugh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the average (and you will look long and hard before finding anyone so aptly described) CB aficionado his radio is his hobby. A ...hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boots Mulcahey: I'm not gonna make a speech. I just got something to say. Tomorrow our old pal, Doc, here's goin' out. He's bein' ...paid off after 30 years. I know most of you kids gotta long way to go before you find out what 30 years in the Navy means. It means service tough and good. It means serving your country in peace and in war. So let's raise our glasses. Radio announcer: We interrupt this program for an important announcement. This morning.... Boots Mulcahey: Aw, cut that thing off. So let's raise our glasses and drink with all the solemnity this occasion demands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin--preludes, e...tudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this p...erson. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television was far more pervasive and radicalizing than printing had been. It was massive. When Riesman and others spoke of books,... magazines, and radio as mass media, they could not imagine the size and shape of television. There never had been a medium that could reach everybody, and reach them with images of behavior as behavior without the rationalization of words. The audience for its programs was drawn from every social class and every social element. By the mere act of watching television, a heterogeneous society could engage in a purely homogeneous activity. Television images are more rapid and transient than the printed word. They make no demand on us to remember or reflect on them. This impermanence and the time of consumption cause us to spend extended hours with the medium but significantly less time with any one image or sequence of images. Television is instantaneous and simultaneous: Everyone gets the message at the same time and, at the same time that an event is happening. There is no lag time between a reporter witnessing an event and reporting it, and no time for reflection and analysis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »