Amusing Ourselves to Death

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• Neil Postman publishes Amusing Ourselves to Death pp. 26-30

  This book is an inquiry into and a lamentation about the most significant American cultural fact of the second half of the twentieth century…

• Philadelphia schools conduct experiment with curriculum sung to students pp. 98-102

  As reported with great enthusiasm by both WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV in 1984, the Philadelphia public schools have embarked on an experiment in whi…

• Paramount Pictures films Witness in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania pp. 103-107

  In the summer of 1984, for example, a Paramount Pictures crew descended upon Lancaster County to film the movie Witness, which is about a de…

• New York Times reports Professor Charles Pine named Professor of the Year pp. 103-107

  On February 7, 1985, The New York Times reported that Professor Charles Pine of Rutgers University (Newark campus) was named Professor of th…

• Sesame Street begins broadcasting pp. 141-146

  There could not have been a safer bet when it began in 1969 than that Sesame Street would be embraced by children, parents and educators.

• Neil Postman dies pp. 2-4

  He died in October 2003 at the age of seventy-two.

• Yale University awards honorary degrees to Meryl Streep and Mother Teresa pp. 103-107

  At the commencement exercises at Yale University in 1983, several honorary degrees were awarded, including one to Mother Teresa.

• USA Today begins publication pp. 117-121

  USA Today, which began publication in September 1982, has become the third largest daily in the United States

• New York Times reports Reagan misstatements getting less attention pp. 112-116

  A New York Times article is headlined on February 15, 1983: reagan misstatements getting less attention

• Czeslaw Milosz wins Nobel Prize in Literature pp. 136-140

  Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, remarked in his acceptance speech in Stockholm

• ABC airs nuclear war debate after The Day After pp. 93-97

  minute discussion provided by the ABC network on November 20, 1983, following its controversial movie The Day After.

• The Genesis Project advertised to convert Bible into film series pp. 103-107

  The project aims to convert the Bible into a series of movies.

• 1984 presidential debates between Reagan and Mondale pp. 103-107

  In the second debate, President Reagan got off a swell one-liner when asked a question about his age.

• Ronald Reagan declares politics is like show business pp. 127-131

  In 1966, Ronald Reagan used a different metaphor.