2011年10月24日星期一

The last three feet

Some notes of it. 

Edward R. Murrow, the famous electronic journalist and former head of the U.S. Information Agency during John F. Kennedy's presidency, once said in an interview that the critical link between two peoples in international communications was "bridged by the personal contact" in "the last three feet."

This one is not relevant: The last three feet is also where the rubber meets the road. It means "the most important thing is".



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Fish & Chips

Saha told us the traditional food fish and chips actually come from the immigrants.

The Jewish guys brought fish, and the French brought chips.

2011年10月17日星期一

Crisis Week 4

The first casualty when war comes is truth," was coined by Hiram Johnson a Republican politician from California who served in the United States Senate for nearly 30 years, beginning in the midst of World War I and concluding with his death in 1945--as it happens, on the same day the U.S. dropped its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima

2011年10月5日星期三

Politics Economy Culture Communication

Full of academic words.
First passage mainly talks about Critical political economy of Communication.
Second is kind of related, but more about the relation between political economy and culture studies.

Full of combination of words.

2011年10月2日星期日

2nd OCT Review of the Embarrassment


Everybody play different roles in different occasions.

Everyone's life is a performance.

PS:
What is meant by Leper's Bell:
In the middle ages, a person with the disease of leprosy ( a contagious and deadly disease ) carried a bell to warn those around them.