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After the robbery, the man managed to elude police on an 80-miles-per-hour chase through the narrow alleys of Cambridge and Boston. Police described him as a 5'10" Black male with a medium build...
Step Two: Choose a medium of communication. You have three publications to choose from: Perspective, Harvard-Radcliffe's liberal monthly; Peninsula, Harvard-Radcliffe's conservative occasionally; or The Salient, Harvard-Radcliffe's conservative incoherently. Because these journals periodically attempt to saturate campus opinion by door-dropping to every dorm room, they are a better choice for the aspiring editorialist than the opinion pages of a certain student-run daily newspaper...
What capital could be made of Van Doren on lowbrow TV. And what capital he could make of it. For Charlie Van Doren was overwhelmed by his bloodlines, needed to succeed somewhere on his own. And this new medium, despised by his family and their friends, seemed perfect. He could become a hero by co-opting it for truth and light. The producers persuaded him to accept answers in advance by telling him how much good he was doing the cause of education with his presence. And the schmuck (to borrow a word from Herbie Stempel's lexicon) believed them...
Music 167ar. Composition in the Digital Electronic Medium...
Doctorow's dilemma reflects the conflict between purists and realists. Will the popularity of books on tape further erode the interest in reading? Or should we welcome any new literary medium -- even a slightly degraded one like books on tape? One hopeful sign is that despite the boom in audio books, sales of hardcovers and paperbacks have not fallen. Just as Hollywood once feared the advent of videocassettes but later discovered they fed rather than discouraged interest in movies, books on tape may actually promote the cause of literature. Four hours of Doctorow or McCarthy is better than nothing, especially...