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...those who do not find this use of quotation offensive recognize that they are fit subscribers to the mag...
This is both newsworthy and reprehensible. For years, it was impossible for film staffers to get such (relative) creative luminaries as John Huston and Orson Welles on any general mag's cover. Now, with cash-trickle, a bevy of blurbs, and disappointing product, technicians get the publicity. And inordinate faith in mass culture receives another well-deserved kick in the head...
Peanuts cocktail napkins lie forgotten in pantry drawers, and Beethoven's face glares up from abandoned Schroeder sweatshirts in musty Goodwill Stores. Charlie Brown calendars are replaced on bedroom walls by Sierra Club gloss, or Playboy Mag. glamour. "Snoopy and the Red Baron" is by now a tarnished golden oldie...
EVERY YEAR a Dunster House chemistry tutor sits down to dinner and finds a group of seniors waxing eloquent about revitalizing the Harvard Advocate. This year, upon discovering the annual Advocate pep rally, the tutor said, "Boys and girls, if the Advocate were smart, you'd print that mag on soft paper, and we'd make it functional as toilet paper." Everyone laughed, and someone suggested that it would be worthwhile to get the tutor to use toilet paper, and a timid voice in the corner said, "But Fred, isn't the Gazette enough?" and there was more laughter...
...recession," says Mrs. Jean G. Bowen, an administrative assistant at Harvard Medical School, "hardly seems the time to introduce a major fashion change that will require tossing out most of one's wardrobe." There have also been purely aesthetic complaints: "They are goofy and unattractive," says Mrs. James Mag-in of Chicago. "Terrific, if you want to look like a walking gunny sack," says Los Angeles Advertising Executive Adrienne Hall. The Women's Liberation movement presented a rationale for the midi's downfall. "I see resistance to the midi as part and parcel of the whole rebellion...