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America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums...
...consistency of theme, even to those who in the '40s and '50s could not stomach it. Massculture artifacts are common coin in gallery art today; they were not so when Paolozzi, working in Paris, produced a whole series of collages scissored from American magazines-cover blondes from pulp thrillers, bombers and Jell-O from LIFE. Fifteen years ahead of time he predicted the grotesque iconography of lushness, repetition and violence that American artists would eventually discover in their own culture. In 1952 he helped form the Independent group in London whose aim was to present mass culture...
...have to ask. Doc was the Hercules of the '30s, the natural father of both Superman and James Bond. Once a month, back before the war, every red-blooded American boy who could lay his hands on 10? plunked it down for a Street & Smith pulp called Doc Savage magazine. Now, once a month and at about seven times the price, any red-blooded middle-aged man who pines for the gore of yore can renew his literary acquaintance with derring...
Anyone who lives near a paper mill knows that smell-a rotten-egg, spoiled-cabbage stink that pours forth when wood pulp is cooked to produce paper. Now, thanks to a small industrial furnace company's work in Muskegon, Mich., the awful stink...
...first major corporation to raise that specter was Union Carbide, which threatened last fall to lay off 625 employees at its plant in Marietta, Ohio, in order to meet air-emission standards. The company has since reversed its decision, but several other marginal plants, including three West Coast sulfite pulp mills owned by Crown-Zellerbach, have been closed down. A group of District 50 Allied and Technical Union members sent Muskie a list of 50 companies whose employment is expected to be cut because of pollution controls. Ralph Nader, who testified at the hearing, introduced an ominous new term...