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...consumers voted overwhelmingly that advertising is a necessary part of the U.S. economic system. A majority thought ads interesting, although too emotional and not factual enough. Only 17% thought advertising prose "silly." But more than half thought advertising was often in bad taste. They objected to detailed references to bodily functions, ads with the gossip theme (the "careless" beauty who becomes a social outcast) and sexy illustrations (44% would completely ban the nude or semi-nude...
Most interesting and starting of the articles is a factual report by two Scandinavian student visitors to Budapest, of conditions among those trying to get a college education. Leaving out graphs and generalizations, the report has passages such as, "The students often live 10-16 together in a room, with broken windows, no heat, poor light. In one college we saw a girl student lying ill with fever in a dank room where the temperature was only 2 degrees...
Referring again to the lives of great scientists for his factual material, Conant analyses and explains the so called "scientific method" in lay terms. Though he has written many books relating to this subject in general and Chemistry in particular, this is the first designed for a popular audience...
When a U.S. news scout searched Bogota for a Colombian representative last year, he was told that there was only one man in the country who knew how to write the terse, factual stories that North Americans like. "Unfortunately for you," a Colombian explained, "he is our President." He spoke of keen, wiry Alberto Lleras Camargo, the "boy wonder" editor who became Minister of Interior (Premier) at 29, and stepped into the presidency ten years later. Last week, Lleras, now 41, got a job with even more scope; he was elected director general of the venerable Pan American Union...
...world Joyce wrote about was, on the surface, the city of Dublin, where he had lived until, at 22, he forsook Ireland for lifelong expatriation on the Continent. His endless evocation of Dublin and the inner life of its people, pathetic, somnambulist, comic and dirty, was as factual as a photograph and as symbolic as a liturgy. Even sympathetic critics sometimes lost patience with him. Wrote Cyril Connolly...