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The "Clash" Between Books and Electronic Media.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Bonfire of the Humanities: Television, Subliteracy, and Long-Term Memory Loss, by television critic David Marc. Marc's latest book looks at the diminishing role books are playing in our lives in the new electronic information age. Bonfire of the Humanities is published by Syracuse University Press July 1995.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, September 5, 1995: Interview with Eric Lomax; Interview with Ben Sandmel and Luderin Darbone; Review of David Marc's book "Bonfire of the Humanities: Television,…
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A Japanese P. O. W. Recalls His Experiences.

Eric Lomax was captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was used as forced labor to help build the Burma-Siam railroad. He was also tortured by the Japanese. He has reconciled with the Japanese interpreter present during his beatings. His book The Railway Man: A P.O.W.'s Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness (W.W. Norton & Company 1995) chronicles his story from WWII and his life 50 years later.

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The Hackberry Ramblers from 1913 to Today.

Ben Sandmel and Luderin Darbone are two members of the Cajun band "The Hackberry Ramblers." Darbone is a founding member of the band who is now in his 80s. The Ramblers started in 1933 in Louisiana. The Ramblers were among the first Cajun bands to abandon the accordion's dominance for the more American guitar-fiddle string band sound. In 1993, The Ramblers released their first album in 30 years titled "Cajun Boogie." prior to this album the Ramblers recorded on the Bluebird Label.

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David Marc on T.V.'s Demographics.

David Marc is a television critic for The Village Voice and Atlantic magazine, and also a professor at Brandeis. Marc thinks that it is important to analyze television with more depth than is currently done. His new book , "Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture," plays on the title of a Walt Whitman essay "Democratic Vistas." Marc views television and its demographic analysis as an "ironic" fulfillment of Whitman's call for an American art that focuses on the "average, democratic, and popular."

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