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Believably, Don comes to this approach organically. In rounding the troops needed for this insurrection, Draper keenly approaches the talented Peggy first. His initial failure of an attempt to sway her to join him, more of a command than a supplication, is keenly followed by an admission of her creative force. “With you or without you, I’m moving on, and I don’t know if I can do it alone. Will you help...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Mad Men’ Reflects American Spirit | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...anything, the best lesson to date that can be drawn from the show is the one manifested in the remarkable pluck and ingenuity of the Draper himself. Faced with the decision to continue on blindly, and unhappily, as a piece in a nebulous mechanism he has no control over, our man refuses to resign himself to the station of a corporate whore (as his mother was, and as he views his soon-to-be ex-wife Betty to be). I, and certainly many fans, expected this finale to be a doomsday episode–the death of a character seemed...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Mad Men’ Reflects American Spirit | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Needless to say, I can’t wait to see what the new office is going to look like next season, let alone what a Draper bachelor pad will hold. If Joan’s return is evidence of anything, it’s that change is coming, and those who can see it coming just in time will be the ones to make...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Mad Men’ Reflects American Spirit | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...bakery advertises their cupcakes as “fresh baked daily from scratch—just like Betty Draper would have made them.”  Perhaps this is indeed how the embodiment of ’60s-housewife-syndrome would have made them were she Betty Crocker, Baking Guru as opposed to Betty Draper, Ice Queen Extraordinaire...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey | Title: Mad Good Cupcakes | 11/8/2009 | See Source »

...without which the D-day landing couldn't have taken place. What I discovered in the files is how it all began - in a characteristically eccentric British way. The most adventurous of the MI5 agents in the 1930s was an air ace from the First World War named Christopher Draper. He's called the "Mad Major," because he was absolutely obsessed with flying under London's bridges. He's invited over to Germany. Hitler is very interested and spends over half an hour talking to him at an air show. When he gets back [to London], he's asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Christopher Andrew on MI5's Secrets | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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