Word: siepmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many doctors have diagnosed radio's ills; few have prescribed a cure. Last week, educator and critic Charles Arthur Siepmann (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941) readied a remedy. In a 276-page book (Radio's Second Chance; Little, Brown; $2.50), he told radio how it could get well if it only half tried...
Formerly a director of the British Broadcasting System, Charles A. Siepmann, University lecturer, will give a talk entitled "Inside England Today"; while John F. Sly '25, professor of Politics at Princeton, will conclude the program with an analysis of the effects of the present war on the people of this country...
...Scholar Siepmann is convinced that radio permits the concentration of power in the hands of a few-power to blast social concepts, to construct or destroy. He is appalled by the fact that of the 500 U.S. universities offering radio courses, only four (Harvard, Princeton, U. of Southern California, Lancaster, Pa.'s Franklin and Marshall College) touch on its social implications...
...says Charles Arthur Siepmann, veteran British educator and BBC director, who last week began a course on radio at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. It will be no ordinary course because Teacher Siepmann has his own ideas. One of six children of a German emigre to England, Siepmann attended Oxford, won the Military Cross in World War I as a British artilleryman in Italy. Pioneer headmaster of one of the Borstal schools for delinquents, where he introduced radio into the curriculum, he joined BBC in 1927, organized radio discussion groups until 1932 when he was made director...
...pessimistic moments, Siepmann is convinced that the misuse of radio contributes mightily to driving the public toward fascism. Two of the most terrifying phrases in all human language, he thinks, are Hitler's avowed objectives, for which radio is a chief tool: "psychological decomposition of the masses" and "mental confusion, contradiction of feeling, indecision, panic [among Nazi enemies...