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...HUM. First the Columbia Spectator retold what had happened in Up Against the Ivy Wall. Then James Simon Kunen expostulated in The Strawberry Statement. And now, two years after the event, Roger Kahn offers another account of the 1968 spring disruptions at Columbia...
...Funt's TV work there was an underlying hum of smugness. Here it becomes a dominant theme. The most vulnerable targets of Funt's sexual satire are social victims: fat ladies in print dresses, cavernous old men prattling about the new amorality, young men anxious for employment, unaware that the hidden waiting-room camera is counting every tic. Periodically, Funt breaks in to remind the audience that it is hidebound by the strictures of Victorian morality, that his X-rated candid camerawork is helping to free society from hypocrisy and cant. But if society were truly free, there...
...HUM WHILE I fizzle a black and white soda (nothing is really black and white . . . ). There's a new product on the market: flavored douches-just great, except they haven't worked up such a variety as Brigham's offers: coffee, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, mint hot fudge, Jesus can you imagine hot fudge? Yes, I am playing a game. I will graduate from candy-pink to black and then, some picture-frame day, to white. Like Hester, I will take off my hair net, let my hair hang down. Even a waitress, even everyone of us plays...
Pornography may be ho-hum, and the Pope may wear a coat...
...which we have record has chosen one or two human figures to elevate to the level of demigods, for the sake of personal identification and glorification. The Greeks had Ulysses; we are blessed with our three lunar loonies. Such people are indispensable; without them there would be no Hum...