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...Nothing better illustrates what is wrong with this country than Rowan and Martin being called a "success." A similar "success" is Gore Vidal with his incredibly filthy books. If vulgarity, innuendo, bad language, bad manners and filth are what is necessary to be a success in these United States, then we are certainly headed for either total depravity or a sharp reaction with a dictatorship. At the end of the last century, the U.S. was at the dawn of a golden age in literature and culture. We had Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Bryant and Whitman. Our former greatness now turns around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1968 | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...found your Rowan and Martin cover story reassuring. I had abandoned Laugh-In some time ago as I found it sophomoric, but on reading of its success with viewers, I was beginning to fear that my reaction was indicative of premature aging. Your finding that the majority of its fans are in the 12-to-18-year-old bracket allays my fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In gets the majority of its audience from the 12-to-18-year-olds? You have to be kidding. I've just bought 40 of their shows. We started screening them a month ago. Everyone is delighted. Now I've got to tell them they've been watching a teen-age show? I could get fired for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...Your enthusiastic exhortations on the "anything goes" theory espoused by Rowan and Martin sums up nicely why Laugh-In is withheld from our five growing children. I won't have my family growing up thinking that it's cute to knock everything, and that they can buy a laugh with smut, double-entendres, or by making household words out of vulgar expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...laughed, howled, and did everything short of rolling on the laundromat floor while reading your cover story on Rowan and Martin. I had to take refuge behind your magazine to evade the glaring eyes of the other patrons who couldn't understand my erratic behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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