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...peptic ulcer, he is wrapped in tin foil and cryogenically preserved. Two hundred years hence he is heated 'n' served in an America that has managed to preserve only that which is ghastly in our own culture: a political leader who only appears before the public mouthing pious platitudes on TV, Rod McKuen's poetry, Walter Kean's paintings, McDonald's hamburgers and vegetables, which have carried the current trend toward tasteless giganticism to its logical extreme-strawberries as big as medicine balls, bananas taller than...
...quite. At a press preview of the première (all shows are taped in advance in Los Angeles without a studio audience), Host Tom Snyder opened with a scathingly opinionated monologue on the Agnew resignation. He castigated the "pious and sanctimonious bilge coming out of Washington" and concluded with the comment: "How dumb do they think we are?" By the time the show went on the air the next morning, however, the network had forced Snyder to retape his opener, omitting his critical broadside...
...they were now part of the public record. He said his statement had nothing to do with his position in the department and he does not consider the status of his appointment at Harvard to be finalized. Many recommendations of the Review Committee now "remain no more than empty pious wishes," Nwafor said in his statement. "There is still no General Education course being offered by the department, and the resolution that every student should be encouraged to take at least one course in Afro-American Studies seems now a moribound consideration...
Unfortunately, the pious talk about home rule often disguises an uglier issue. In Bedford, N. Y., for example, a woman who opposed the UDC's low-cost housing proposal stated: "Let one of those people in, and they'll bring their whole families from Carolina!" Similarly, when other suburban communities try to exclude new residents-especially blacks-their arguments invariably evoke traditional land controls...
...speaks to their local concerns while at the same time makes sense out of the complexities of national and international affairs. Out people want newspapers that at least try to describe and explain the baffling series of crises that have rocked our nation for the past decade. And, the pious post-Watergate self-congratulations notwithstanding, our people are not getting the kind of journalism they want, and need...