Victor S. Navasky (1932–2023)
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A propos de l'auteur
Victor S. Navasky is Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at Columbia University.
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Œuvres de Victor S. Navasky
The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (1998) 220 exemplaires
The Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (2000) — Directeur de publication — 68 exemplaires
The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry (1671) — Directeur de publication — 34 exemplaires
Perspectives 1865-2000: A Time Capsule of Classic Selections By the World's Most Provocative Writers, Thinkers and… (2000) 21 exemplaires
Perspectives (1865 - 1997): A time capsule of classic selections by the world's most provocative writers, thinkers and… 2 exemplaires
Monocle, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer-Fall, 1963 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (2007) — Contributeur — 127 exemplaires
Nation 1865–1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (1990) — Postface — 88 exemplaires
It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America (1989) — Avant-propos — 46 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Navasky, Victor Saul
- Date de naissance
- 1932-07-05
- Date de décès
- 2023-01-23
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- pneumonia
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Rudolf Steiner School, New York
Swarthmore College (AB | 1954)
Yale University (LLB | 1959) - Professions
- editor
publisher
professor
journalist - Organisations
- The New York Times
The Nation
Columbia University School of Journalism
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 881
- Popularité
- #29,074
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 14
- ISBN
- 35
- Langues
- 4
"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
—The Quarterly Review, England, March 1825
"[T]hat any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.
—Thomas Tredgold (British railroad designer), Practical Treatise on Railroads and Carriages, 1835
"Railways can be of no advantage to rural areas, since agricultural products are too heavy or too voluminous to be transported by them.”
—F.-J.-B. Noel, "The Railroads Will Be Ruinous for France, and Especially for the Cities Through Which They Go" (pamphlet), 1842
"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.“
—Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793—1859) (Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London)
(Page 251)
“But as a means of amusement, the idea of aerial travel has cumbersome great promise.... We shall fly for pleasure.”
—T. Baron Russell, A Hundred Years Hence, 1905
"[Al popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained … [T]here is no hope of [the airplane's] competing for racing speed with either our locomotives or our automobiles.
—William Henry Pickering (American astronomer at Harvard College Observatory), Aeronautics, 1908
"[T]he aeroplane ... is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven passengers. High-speed monoplanes will carry even less.
—Waldemar Kaempfert (Managing Editor of Scientific American and author of The New Art of Flying), "Aircraft and the Future, " Outlook, June 28, 1913
[A photograph of ] “Nevada Civil Defense observers, all but a few of whose eyesight was preserved by protective glasses, marveled at the sight of the May 5, 1955 "Operation Cue" atomic blast, which was set off in the atmosphere a mere seven-and-a-half miles from their lookout point.”
”In 1982, Dr. Clark Heath, an epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, testified in a negligence lawsuit brought against the U.S. government by Utah cancer victims. According to Dr. Heath, from 5 to 20 times the expected number Of leukemia cases had been contracted in fallout zones associated with atmospheric atomic tests conducted during the 1950s. Dr. Glyn G. Caldwell, also of the Centers for Disease Control, testified that the number of leukemia deaths among troops observing a 1957 A-test was three times higher than normal.”
[see also: The Radiation-Hazard Bugaboo, page 2381
(Page 272)
I remember as I child we were advised not to eat the livers of deer that we shot.
Only much later in life did I learn that dad and other workers in the Utah Red Wash oil field got a sunburn from the Nevada nuclear tests.
… (plus d'informations)