The Great Debate On September 26, 1960, seventy-four million viewers tuned in to watch a historic duel: the first televised presidential debate. The candidates were a young, relatively unknown Massachusetts senator named John F. Kennedy and the more experienced incumbent vice president, Richard M. Nixon. Although historians note that the candidates were equally skilled speakers, the differences in their televised performances were considerable. Viewers thought that Nixon, who had recently been hospitalized for an injury, appeared sallow and sweaty; by contrast, Kennedy looked handsome and relaxed. As Kennedy spoke, he fixed his gaze on the camera to address at-home viewers. On the other hand, Nixon directed his responses to reporters off camera, which made him seem cold and distant to television viewers. The differences in their appearances had a dramatic effect. Some people even recall that when they listened to the debate on the radio, they thought that Nixon had won, whereas when they saw clips on TV, they thought Kennedy was the better debater.
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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.