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What about, for example, the aphasics of the counterculture? The ad writer may dingdong catch phrases like Pavlov's bells in order to produce saliva. The Movement propagandist rings his chimes ("Fascist!" "Pig!" "Honky!" "Male chauvinist!") to produce spit. More stammer than grammar, as Dwight Macdonald put it, the counterculture makes inarticulateness an ideal, debasing words into clenched fists ("Right on!") and exclamation points ("Oh, wow!"). Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left. Between the excesses of square and hip rhetoric the language is in the way of being torn apart...
...educators are far from unanimous on the subject. There is, for example, the "catharsis school"; it contends that a little vicarious violence each day keeps the psychiatrist away. Noting that the evening news on TV is not exactly Dingdong School, San Francisco Psychiatrist Gene Sagan says that "it is natural for man to murder and destroy. And it is society's responsibility to provide a healthy outlet. The more ritualized violence we have on TV, the fewer assaults, riots and wars we will have...
Yearn for immortality? Pine to be remembered till the last dingdong of doom? Want to be sure your memory remains green to every generation of your descendants? It's as easy as hifi. So writes Lester C. Worden in his book, A Living Legacy...
Little Me. Sid Caesar is the laugh-combustion engine of this musical comedy. Neil Simon's tart script, Bob Fosse's inventive dances and Virginia Martin's dingdong Belle Poitrine help to keep the evening chugging merrily along...
When Scripto, Inc. and Parker Pen Co. each announced that they had a new kind of pencil that writes with liquid graphite and never has to be sharpened (TIME, Feb. 7), everyone in the industry expected a dingdong patent fight and a sales battle. Scripto's "Fluidlead," already on the market, was a 49? pencil; Parker's "Liquid Lead," a model at under $5, was to be brought out in the spring...