Word: boundless
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Since the 1920s, the electronic media have become a fashionable source of anxiety, their power apparently boundless but their influence still strangely unclear. If information dispersal has become an entertainment form, this is, as we have seen, no total break with the past. When news came infrequently, as it did in the 18th century, its reception often provided occasions for gathering and celebration. It is the frequency of its reception that makes the real difference. When the entertainment appears daily, even hourly, the focus becomes the transmitter, not the information. This may be the only way of coping with...
...period, show a tragic blindness to the true nature of the Soviet system, and perhaps a real lack of political sophistication. But to use this element in his career to condemn either Robeson the man, or Robeson the symbol, is misleading and wrong. Robeson the man was defined by boundless compassion: for war refugees, for his oppressed black brothers, and in a real sense, for all who suffered in an uncaring world. And Robeson the symbol represented, not the Communist Party or the Soviet Union, but resistance to oppression and struggle for a just society...
...first year in office, he has curbed growth in his state's burgeoning governmental employment and spending. He has admonished Californians to lower their sights, prepare to make needed sacrifices instead of slaking the urge to consume, and accept unaccustomed notions of inherent limits instead of boundless growth...
...people again had work, and money to spend in their leisure time. He was a first generation American, the son of Italian immigrants, who grew to prominence in a period when Americans, and particularly ethnics, perceived of the United States, or at least wanted to, as a land of boundless opportunity. The human interest stories about DiMaggio and his too numerous to count brothers filled the newspapers, alongside stories about Anschluss and Blitzkrieg, giving Americans a sense of apartness, of pride, and of security. The dream still worked over here, no matter what was happening on "the other side...
...minor wire agencies and five years freelancing. Later he worked for CBS abroad, mainly in Central Europe, and did not reach Washington until 1966. He married late (at 50) and skips the Washington social whirl in favor of his two small children, family life and work. His energies are boundless. He was the lone reporter on a winter Sunday evening last March waiting for Nelson Rockefeller's return from a Puerto Rico vacation. Grabbing the opportunity, Schorr got Rockefeller to admit that his CIA commission was looking into assassination plots...