Word: goats
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Guilt Complexes. Toynbee and other academic critics seem most concerned by advertising's outsized influence on the cultural and living standards of society. "It's like the goat in Leviticus," says San Francisco's John Hoefer of Hoefer, Dieterich & Brown. "Everyone's atoning for his own guilt complexes about having more than his parents or his grandparents. Most people realize that half the world is starving while we're sitting pretty...
...earliest panacea peddlers to cross the Rio Grande was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the ''goat-gland" tycoon who exploited his failing listeners' yearnings for potency to the tune of some $1,000,000 a year before he died bankrupt...
Just in Time. For Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's goat-bearded, Communist boss, the wall was utterly necessary to preserve the very life of his dismal satrapy. For seldom had history witnessed so great an exodus as had been flowing Westward in great clotted spurts. "You are sharing in the Great Socialist Experiment," Ulbricht cried to his people in 1949, as he cut their food ration and trimmed away their liberties. Far from sharing Ulbricht's enthusiasm, almost 3,500,000 East Germans-no less than 20% of the post-World War II population-fled to the West...
When Liberation Mah is born, the Tree Trunk disappears, and Cripple Mah sets out with the baby and an old billy goat, which he had purchased under the impression that it was a nanny, to seek his fortune in Peking. It is not long before he is supporting another Comrade Sweetheart. Even in a progressive state, this is one cup of water too many, and soon Mah finds himself in a corrective labor camp, being washed of bigamous thoughts. Everything turns out well, just in time for the second-act curtain. Says San Franciscan Lee, who last saw his native...
William Alfred, professor of English at Harvard, will read from his revision of Hogan's Goat Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Lamont Forum Room. He will be introduced by his colleague, Robert O'Clair...