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...projected 87-volume official history, and one of the best so far. From the enemy side came documents of such varying value as Ciano's Hidden Diary, Franz von Papen's Memoirs, The Rommel Papers and Hitler's Secret Conversations, a collection of curious drivel that must have the remnants of his followers wondering how they could have swallowed similar stuff...
...actual price of this method is high. For salesmen are mainly interested in selling, not in quality, truthfulness, or public service. And a radio system based on the Big Sell is one long stream of advertising, broken up by bits of standardized "entertainment." Most of this is repetitious drivel at best, but commercial radio still spews forth eight hours of soap opera daily because such abominations are a cheap way to Sell. Somehow, people accept all this as the cost of "free" radio broadcasting, but recently the networks have raised the price. Radio has taken on aspects of political indoctrination...
...shock to read that four million people in our supposedly enlightened society listen to the drivel produced by soap opera [TIME, May 19 ] The characters, the conversation, the overall idiocy of these shows appall me! Are we a nation of dimwits...
They have done both. New American Library, probably the largest of the reprint houses, has published 11 million copies of Mickey Spillane's sexy drivel-and also reprinted, in more modest editions, the Odyssey and Crime and Punishment...
Last week Manhattan's anti-Communist weekly, the New Leader, published more evidence of Mann's political activities. It was a letter to Stalin's cultural commissar in East Germany, Poet Johannes Becher. More worshipful of Russia's boss than Pravda, Becher turns out such drivel as: "How happy must be the letter 'i' as it is permitted to form a letter in the name of Stalin." Cries he in his "Hymn to the Soviet Union...