Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Petitions being circulated all last week by an ad hoc committee set up at Radcliffe pledged support of the strike, and urged students not to strikebreak by serving themselves in the event that there was food but no waitresses...
...scale of the disturbances was greatly enlarged in numbers, intensity and violence by the delay in calling the police--from Thursday night until Monday night--which the Ad Hoc Faculty Group forced upon the University officials. Although perhaps the effort had to be made, there was never a significant chance that the Group could negotiate a peaceful withdrawal from the buildings. Forcing a delay, by threats of physical interposition, increased the likelihood of violence and magnified the reaction by lending an air of legitimacy to use of the tactics of physical disruption as means of forcing one view of policy...
...only page of this parody which elicited a sustained laugh from me wasn't supposed to: it was Life's first full-page ad, boasting a two-inch deep, white-on-red Life logo, topped by the words, "A good ribbing?" Down at the bottom, it says, "Let it never be said that Life couldn't appreciate a good ribbing. If that were true, we would never have taken this ad. But now that you've had a few laughs, it's only fair that you also have the opportunity to enjoy the real McCoy...
...fairness to the Lampoon (and because they did well by me in the matter of food and drink at the parody's coming-out party), it must be said that the Poonies did not write that ad, and were unhappy themselves to find it in their magazine...
Life magazine may have shown it can take a ribbing. But it was not, as their proud ad states, a "good ribbing...