Articles about Entertaiment
This Fall issue of TEN, or T E News, tackles a big subject: entertainment. The word, whose roots in Medieval Latin go back to the Indo-European tenere, means “to hold inside.” To entertain is to hold something inside, whether it’s laughter or attention or a new way of thinking. It’s easy to see why the idea of holding something inside is so compelling. But what does that mean in practice? How do we define entertainment, and what are some of the ways it is expressed in different media? Read on to find out.
Note: The definitions in this article are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary.