Word: fall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard times means that the Lampoon didn't make the killing they expected to on their Life parody last fall. As my paternal grandmother used to say about my father, "their eyes were bigger than their stomach." Just before the Life press run, they jacked up the number they would print from 400,000 to 650,000. They could only sell half of them, and the rest are rotting in warehouses from Sheboygan to El Paso. They lost $15,000 on the $200,000 deal. That's big business...
...Lampoon has been big business ever since the fall of 1966 when they made over (over!) $100,000 profit from their parody of Playboy (who, by the by, printed it for them and helped them get ads from their own regulars). To say that the Lampoon has been in collusion with the corporate complex of this country's industrial power brokers would be a waste of idealistic breath...
...Selma and has been an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam war. Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis since his consecration in 1965, he has served as deputy head of communications for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; he was the conference's press spokesman last fall when the U.S. bishops defended Pope Paul VI's encyclical on birth control...
...impression of a few feverish laps around the laboratory, an oppressive feeling that the spreading bacteria may be less of a threat than the organized technology necessary to fight it. The book remains essentially a great short story, distended to novel length, that closes on a dying fall...
...fall in sawdust from the aluminum-paint wall...