By Zbigniew Brzezinski
Best-selling writer and previous nationwide safeguard adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski bargains a daring new worldwide imaginative and prescient for extending American preeminence within the twenty first Century.
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2, 1955, p. 37). Advertisers' texts thus emphasized TV set design said to be in accordance with women's judgment. " Significantly, the "good looks," not of the mundane "receiver" or "set" but the "instrument," were rooted in historical periods, in Regency or Queen Anne or French Empire or in the American colonial eighteenth century. The newest telecommunications technology was entering the American home both on the basis of its anchorage in the past and its simultaneous claim to its ahistorical status as unassailable classic (Life, 31 [19] [Nov.
Of course, aeronautical engineers did not specify that airplane window designs mimic the TV screen. But the connotations of the screen itself were emphatically transferred to the airplane window in the age of jet passenger service. The safety and comfort of the living room or "family room" are emphatic in these ads, in which the soft rounded corners function as reassurance. To be thrust forward at six hundred miles per hour at a height of thirty thousand feet off the ground is a reality suppressed by these texts, in which the airplane interior is a living room with a TV screen.
A cook in the very bone and centre of her soul" (24). As Chloe tends her baking pan, Stowe leaves her to "finish the picture" of Uncle Tom's "cottage," and readers next are shown a bedroom corner turned "drawing-room," also with hearth, this a fireplace on whose wall hang "scriptural prints, and a portrait of General Washington" (24-25). Stowe gives readers two hearths, two shrines, one to domesticity, the other to patriotism, the very founding of the nation. The two are complements, each necessary to complete the other.