Word: memoranda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...core of Sontag's argument is that photography is not an art: it is a language, a neutral medium. Its analogue is not painting but paint. "Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac's Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures and Atget's Paris...
...bureau's investigation shed light on a number of the murkier aspects of the crime. After exploring the mountains of transcripts, memoranda and telex messages, TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey sent this summary of the 40,001 pages of FBI documents...
President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was about to replace the Ford Administration's NSSMs (National Security Study Memoranda) with PSMs (Presidential Study Memoranda)-until he realized it might be awkward trying to pronounce that particular acronym. Brzezinski quickly rechristened the reports PRMs (Presidential Review Memoranda), and voila, a new acronym was born-pronounced prims-and certain soon to become among Washington's best-admired bureaucratic mots...
Brown-Beasley's charges, which he has backed with letters, memoranda and other documents, revolve around several projects in the Office of Fiscal Services. They include...
Copies of Central Intelligence Agency memoranda, which The Crimson received last year after requesting agency files under the Freedom of Information Act, show that the CIA maintained Crimson clippings in their files. Included in the files was an article exposing the CIA's headquarters at 545 Tech Square, and another article telling how two Harvard students helped Ramparts magazine reveal the CIA's subsidization of the National Student Association...