Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Although daily journalism has been more highly developed in the United States than in any other country of the world . . . people in America are, for the most part, poorly informed. This is not the fault of the daily newspapers ; they print all the news. It is not the fault of the weekly "reviews"; they adequately develop and comment on the news. To say with the facile cynic that it is the fault of the people themselves is to beg the question. People are uninformed because no publication has adapted itself to the time which busy men are able to spend...
...culture may develop further along these same lines. But some students of cultural growth believe that by 1940 it was close to its peak. The lack of new, basic inventions is one proof they offer. Power-driven production machines were still growing more productive, but at a slower rate. According to these theorists, the original impetus given to cultural development by fuel-burning engines was almost exhausted...