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Quickly, the new deputy proved himself the fastest ball-point pen around; his pad spit tickets like bullets. "I was the only guy writing tickets," he remembers. "When I'd see somebody fighting, I'd arrest them. It looked to me like there was this look-the-other-way deal going on. The officers would spend a couple of hours in the coffee shops, then a couple of hours with friends, then back to the coffee shops. This place was wide open...
...first 340 years of Harvard College's existence—from the quill and ink-well to the ball-point pen—ownership of the means of production has been within the reach of all students. When this equality was threatened by the typewriter, a production tool beyond the means of some students, the University installed typewriters in the libraries. Those who were unable to purchase typewriters could still have access to them and not be unfairly disadvantaged in grading...
...modern economy is not just a dismal saga of inflation though. The S.M.A.P. can also remember when the first ball-point pens came on the market for $12.50. No longer, said the ads, could ink leak from your fountain pen and ruin your new shirt. The S.M.A.P. had in those days a rich friend who spent $52 on the Fritz Busch performance of The Marriage of Figaro (on 17 breakable records); that version, one of half a dozen, now costs $18. When the S.M.A.P. first went to Europe in 1946, the only way he could find to get there...
That committee published its findings, presumably drafted in ball-point, in the now out-of-print "Red Book" which quickly became a model for educational reform. The fact that the University of Chicago and Columbia had already been using an almost identical program for years didn't seem to bother the press and the public, who quickly saw in the "Red Book" a "breakthrough" in undergraduate teaching. "Columbia and Chicago had gotten into Gen Ed years before," Wilcox says, "but we copied it--and we got all the credit...
...hurried, and the images don't flow into each other. Superman is 100% studio hype; is the public so gullible that it can flock to a film because the studio says it's a hit, because Warner Brothers has the money to shove dolls, shirts, lunchboxes and ball-point pens into an already garish, mindless popular culture? John Williams has composed his worst and most blatantly derivative score, and among the actors, Brando is inexcusably wasted as Superman's father-saint, and Gene Hackman is embarrassing as the campy villain--is it possible that this once-gripping character actor...