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...pure enough for them. Several times in Happy Days, Winnie scrutinizes the handle of her toothbrush and reads the words "fully guaranteed . . . genuine pure." She and the New Exquisites are bitter because life is not fully guaranteed and genuinely pure. Their plaint is that life is fraudulent, corrupt, conformist, lonely, sad and beastly. The Old Exquisites proclaimed art for art's sake. By finding life devoid of ends and meanings, the New Exquisites proclaim art for the artist's sake as the only alternative and the only affirmation...
...Other Chang. So far, the junta generals had been devoting themselves mainly to arrests of prostitutes, jaywalkers, hooligans, and harassment of suspected Communists, liberals and corrupt politicians. Pak's first major move after taking over was to set off in full cry after the liberals again. Announcing a new law providing penalties up to death for Communist collaborators, the junta arrested former Premier John Chang and seven of his Democratic Party Cabinet ministers who were in his Cabinet before the May 16 coup, labeling them "proCommunist plotters." Although John Chang is a Catholic and a well-known antiCommunist...
...scene from the Wagnerian opera: building inspectors on the take because the Board of Education pays them too little, winks at their peccadilloes, and demoralizes them with the behavior of those higher up. But it struck the public hard; playing with the safety of schoolchildren was more than ordinarily corrupt. Said Theobald, a civil engineer whose academic-political experience as a former president of Queens College and a former deputy mayor should have prepared him for Big Town surprises: "It is quite a jolting experience...
...would be useless." The CRIMSON had already decided that it made little difference to the country who was elected; the Advocate, too, commenting on the small turnout in the straw vote, grumbled that "the whole political machinery of our government is run by people who are either so corrupt or so inefficient that they have made our whole government a laughing matter...
...servicemen in Europe, it is the "Oversexed Weekly." To Major General Edwin A. Walker, late of the 24th Infantry Division stationed in West Germany, it is "immoral, unscrupulous, corrupt and destructive." To its proprietor, Marion Rospach, 36, a stocky, energetic divorcee with a tomboy bob, it is a paper of high moral tone because it refuses to cover sodomy cases or "trials involving indecent assaults on children." But the Overseas Weekly, an English-language tabloid published in Frankfurt, West Germany, balks at little else, takes particular delight in headlining the missteps of military brass. By last week, the Overseas Weekly...