Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter stated that "only more effective action, using better publicity techniques, can make extremism unfashionable." The letter called for a "revolt of the rationally committed" by contacting "various spontaneous local groups that have arisen to combat extremism" and working with these groups to establish "a permanent network...
...Mumford is a scholar in the old-style as well--not the product of assembly line education, but a thinker without titles, whose formal education was night school at the City College of New York. Mumford calls himself a writer, but it's probably for lack of a better word. "The orthodox name is philosopher," he says, "but a philosopher today is a specialist. I loathe the very notion of expert...
Tobacco Road. An end to the popular, if only moderately profitable service would be another setback for Eastern, which is the most sorely troubled major U.S. airline. It ran a deficit of about $10 million in 1968, and few airline analysts expect it to fare much better in 1969. The price of its stock has dropped 50% since...
Crumb's philosophy of life has been around for several thousand years. You either accept it or you don't. But even if you don't you can still enjoy the world that Crumb has created. Minor details are remembered, and are important - "SCHUMAN THE HUMAN better known as 'Baldy' goes forth with his fine mind to FIND GOD! And believe me, he took along a lunch!" Backgrounds add depth to situations-"Whiteman," the stereotypical businessman, walks down a street that has a traffic sign reading "Keep a tight asshole"; a frontier sheriff, who looks amazingly like LBJ, carries...
...comic strips in this collection have appeared over the last couple of years in "Cavalier." It's easy to tell which ones; there is a hint of sex in most of the comics, but only these have a leering air about them. They still succeed, but Crumb does better work trying to satisfy his own sense of what's funny...