Word: fad
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...admit semi-defeat. I can see only one benefit from these bird droppings, and that is a new fad I suppose to start right now. We merely add Seagull to the end of anyone's name whom we distrust. Try, John W. Dean Seagull III, or Senator Edward M. Kennedy Seagull '54 (D-Mass.), or even Erich Segal Seagull. Children understand...
...disparity between the numbers attending the sessions on China (161) and on black-fiction and film (35), underscores a notorious feature of A.C., the thin line between 'interest' and 'fad.' Four years ago, when black-fiction was "in", one could have expected droves of chic radicals enrolling in a five-day seminar catchily titled, Black Rage, from Little Rock to Black Panthers. Today only a handful of devotees remain, like Jeremiah Sheehy who believes that "black fiction is more relevant to my life than China." For many, then, A.C. may represent a sophisticated 'prep school' for cocktail circuits. That many...
...Modern Living story last year on a Detroit-area phenomenon-the playing of tunes on pushbutton telephones-spread the fad across the nation and resulted in the publication by the Los Angeles firm, Price/Stern/Sloan, of The Pushbutton Telephone Songbook, which gives instructions for calling friends and playing for them such pushbutton tunes as Flow Gently, Sweet Afton and Strangers in the Night...
...even a handful of students taking up so silly and risky a fad? Some undergraduates suggest jokingly that the quality of food served in university dining halls might explain the hunger for bulbs. Even Epps admits: "It's clear that something is missing from their diet." Or is the void somewhere else...
Since Kael is so loyal a defender of youth vis-a-vis "the riot movie fad" it seems treacherous to fault her on the subject. Nevertheless, while she treats upper-class enervation as a given, when Antonioni's activist youths (Zabriskie Point) are zombies it means he is alienated. The assumption blights her reasoning. Especially since she insists the America is a better place to live than Antonioni makes it out to be - which puts her on the side of straight liberal anti-radical youth...