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“What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.”

Believe Ability Issues Air Theatre Mediums Peculiar

Author:Samuel West

“Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.”

Doe Stills Force Can Do Air Television Impact Mediums Journalism Print Substitutes Comprehensive

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.”

Light Air Ordinary Breaths Mediums

Author:Robert Pinsky

“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”

Should Firsts Philosophy Play Lasts Interesting Air Poet Demand Machines Philosophical Flying Absurd Mediums Instance Piano Poetry Is Requirements Tanks Sewing Forlorn Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

“An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.”

Moments Form Actors Given Acting Power Audience Comedy Air Effects Messages Unique Tragedy Communicate Reactions Command Mediums Unexpected That Moment Splits Alluring Thin Air

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.”

Source: Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr

“Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.”

Men Mind May Mean Long Age Law Known Cases Air Bird Letters Difficulty Aids Mediums Aviation Artificial Principal Predictions Speculation Obliged Laws Of Nature Balloons Buoyancy

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.”

Humans Body Sound Voice Lines Air Shapes Mouths Boxes Mediums Poetry Is Chests Coming Out Human Body

Author:Robert Pinsky

“There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I wanted to make something that was specific to the medium of recording.”

Wanted Rooms Air Instruments Contact Mediums Throat Horns Mics

Author:Colin Stetson