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The neat middle-aged executive peers out from the television screen. "Hello," he says, his face crinkling into a sheepish grin. "I'm from General Telephone." Boos and hisses explode off-camera. "Now, I'm aware that General Telephone provides less than adequate service." Plop. A rotten tomato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Mea Culpa Campaign | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

COMING off this defeat with heads reeling, the MCP received its final blow of the evening. Sara, Sharman, and some of the other freshmen had conceived the idea of a boy's playroom to be located in the basement. Ever jealous of their privacy and quiet, the girls had devised...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: A Harvard Boy's Life at Radcliffe: Finding What Girls Are All About | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

When he finished, an indignant Yarmolinsky rose from the audience and, seething with anger, told Guinier, "All that you have said in the last ten minutes makes you unfit to be a member of the Harvard Faculty." Hispronouncement was met with scattered boos and hisses which only spurred Yarmolinsky's...

Author: By A HARVARD Faculty member, | Title: The Kingdom and the Power The Story Behind the New Look Of the Harvard Faculty | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

The first gasps came when Cook voted no. The gallery obviously was overwhelmingly against Carswell. Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield dramatically extended a thumbs-down gesture to the clerk when his name was called. Prouty's "No" drew scattered applause, despite rules against such expression. When Maggie Smith delivered her negative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Seventh Crisis of Richard Nixon | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

Encolpius is pardoned, and to the lusty cheers of the crowd, presented with the body of a beautiful overripe woman. Encolpius, who, if it is possible, understands what has been happening even less than the movie audience, waves to the crowd and strides over to the woman. He mounts her...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: The Moviegoer Fellini Satyricon at the Cheri 3 | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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