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...they cultivate cynicism-the hardboiled, hard-drinking kind that is supposed to make Chicago newspapermen so colorful." The Review hopes to change that by promoting "a professional consciousness among our fellow newsmen-to let them know that their battle to stay 'pure' is not a lonely, hopeless fight...
Indeed, the Ramparts board of directors decided last week to go into bankruptcy, and Hinckle resigned as editor and president of the corporation. But whether the sensation-seeking journal of New Left opinion actually was dead was still uncertain. Hinckle said the situation was so hopeless that he would start a new publication, mischievously called "Barricades," that would be "an investigative, swinging magazine just like the old Ramparts"-but free of debt. Yet Frederick Mitchell, a 35-year-old former history professor who has reportedly put $500,000 of his inherited funds into Ramparts since becoming publisher two years...
PAUL KRASSNER, in his introduction to this book, terms Crumb "the illegitimate offspring of Krazy Kat." George Herriman's great comic strip of the twenties wasn't centered around a philosophy of life, either. Its fantasy world was akin to Crumb's: the hopeless romantic (Krazy Kat), the skeptic who rejects her love (Ignatz Mouse), and, above both, the defender of society and justice (Offisa...
...used to free the Pueblo crew. But whether the Faculty actually overturned the Ad Board or merely amended its recommendation with an innovation the board could not have proposed itself is beside the point, College administrators (like Grayson Kirk) forced to handle student discipline by themselves are in a hopeless bind because they do not have the authority to make their decisions stick. Here the Faculty has the final power to fix punishments and yesterday its members rightly decided by a two to one margin that the Administration formula was too barsh...
...given moment is a belief in the idea that some sort of change or progress is being made. If we were to take a given moment (say, now), looked around us, and tried to justify what we saw as a finished product, we would lose ourselves in hopeless despair. We now justify what we are doing as being part of a process--since we can't justify what we are doing, we justify how we are doing it. This process has to have a direction if we are to proceed...