Word: mailroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like John Osborne's Angry Young Man of the '50s, the hero of Quadrophenia is named Jimmy. Estranged from his family and bored with his London mailroom job, he has become a member of the mods, a loose, nationwide gang of motorbike dandies that sprang up with the Mersey sound. As the talented director Franc Roddam follows Jimmy and his cronies around, we watch a society being born. When The Who's pivotal song. My Generation, flips on at a boozy make-out party, the kids forsake their '50s dance steps for the tribal free...
...notion that cancer was killing us, when it was cancerphobia instead!! Anyhow, when the Food Services were contacted last week and pressed to identify the author of this gratuitous swill, a spokesperson said, "No one wrote it." It seems that it was a slow summer in the Feedback mailroom, and so the Big Codfish and Ms. Knish were instructed to come up with a page of meaningful filler for the upcoming Registration Issue...
...more than two years later, the letter campaign has picked up new momentum-so that the FCC has had to add two extra staffers to clear out its clogged mailroom. On an average working day, the postman now carts in some 7,500 antipetition letters-for a total of nearly 5 million pieces of mail...
...admirable job, completes his assignments and heads back to Headquarters. Back in the basement of Thayer, he is greeted by three smiling captains and Tom Curly '78, captain of the captains, who tells him, "We've decided to promote you. You realize our other areas of responsibility include trashing, mailroom and mounting posters. Most of the posters you see in Emerson and Sever were put there...
...worked in the mailroom, I've helped take classified ads, I've rolled a trash bin or two across the press room." That job history was recounted last week in the offices of the Washington Post, not by a trainee but by Katharine Graham, 58, board chairman of the Washington Post...