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...took aim at the 21-in.-screen hog caller for the world ("When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people"), let fly1 at the plug that comes on little blat feet: "More than half the commercials are filled with inanity, asininity, silliness and cheap trickery." TV's Arlene Francis burbled a defense ("We're only babies. We have to grow") after the ancient mellowed slightly and allowed that television is a "young medium, and we will pray...
Touchback. In Bridgeport, Ohio, when parents complained that members of the high-school football squad were undergoing too strenuous training, Coach Al Blat-nik put them to playing drop the handkerchief...
...from the auditorium balcony, or commandeering textbooks from other pupils and selling them back for two bits apiece, "way below wholesale cost," as one of the old gang puts it. Conscious even then of his big voice, he liked to sneak up behind victims in the school corridors and blat a loud note into their ears. Southern High expelled him within two months of graduation. As Mario tells the story, it was because he socked a teacher for slurring his Italian extraction. By then, Freddy weighed 250 Ibs., a blubbery fact that did not prevent him from cutting a wide...
...such staunch Administration supporters as Senators Josh Lee, Parentis Brown, and George Norris; among those riding the tide to victory are such consummate Roosevelt-haters as Tom Dewey, Ham Fish, and "Curly" Brooks. Read as a chapter in American politics the 1942 elections stand as a clear-cut blat in the face of Democratic President Roosevelt--his severest and most significant check since his first election ten years...
Dangerous Thoughts shows U. S. readers the impertinent Hogben intelligence at work in a set of 15 cocky, popularly scientific essays. Two pieces give the blat to Marxian dogmatists, to the theory of the "inevitability" of class war; advise Socialists to realize the importance of the skilled, salaried worker, to bring themselves up to date on technology. Other blats: the scientific ignorance of statesmen; liberal "unbias"; any front against fascism which does not take full cognizance of science; economics as an "exact" science; "humane or gentlemanly" knowledge as against "useful or scientific" knowledge...