Word: openness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...started with an advertising man's dream-a vision of a helpless, pliable throng, ears open and guards down, known in the trade as a "captive audience." Trapped in Manhattan's cavernous Grand Central Terminal, where each day 500,000 persons swarm to & fro, was the biggest audience in captivity. The temptation was irresistible. Grand Central expanded its public address system into a small broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music...
Michael jumped to the ground, white-faced, yanked open the arena door and ran in. His 14-year-old sister followed him, screaming for help. They began hitting the lion with sticks. Sultan crouched over his victim, glared back at them over his hulking tan shoulder. Then he lowered his head again over May Schafer. Outside, three-year-old Sandra screamed shrilly...
...Laugh. In Italy, which boasts Europe's largest Communist Party outside Russia, Moscow has so far permitted Boss Palmiro Togliatti to follow freewheeling, flexible tactics in his pursuit of power. Many Communist workers and peasants understand little of Marx's ideology and are permitted deviations (e.g., open attachment to the Roman Catholic Church) which might mean a purge in more tightly disciplined Communist Parties. But, proclaimed the Red Party newspaper Unita last week, "there is a need to eliminate . . . the spirit of indifference and easy living...