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...short, stout, balding, rumpled, plain-speaking man who viewed the world through black-rimmed bifocals and generally liked what he saw. He was, in brief, the antithesis of the popular conception of the sleek, cynical advertising man. Yet when Leo Burnett died at 79 after a heart attack last week, he was one of the ad world's giants. Along with a handful of others -Bruce Barton, Albert Lasker and Stanley Resor-Burnett was an American original who brought a distinctive viewpoint to the often imitative business of mass persuasion...
...charm. A street confrontation is never personal; it is always, in Buber's terms, and I-It relationship, never I-Thou. The woman must always be made to feel like an object under appraisal. Slim and rich, like a good cigarette. Soft, like a pair of slippers, Sleek...
...Mephisto Waltz looks a lot like Rosemary's Granddaughter. There are the ambitious husband, beleaguered wife, treacherous new acquaintances, sympathetic old friends, intimations of perversion and, finally, the confirmation of diabolism. Yet for all the obvious echoes of its superior predecessor, Waltz stands on its own as a sleek and scary piece of movie necromancy...
Once and for all, declared the press releases, the $288,900 Questor Grand Prix would decide the burning question: "Can brute American power beat effete European technology?" Can, in other words, the growling Formula A racing cars that are prepared in the U.S. hold their own against the sleek little Formula One machines from the international Grand Prix circuit...
There's another rite of Spring here at fair Harvard, one which all students can participate in vicariously if not in fact. It's called crew, and each Spring the he-men amongst us are out on the sparkling Charles in their sleek craft pulling valiantly to preserve the glory of Harvard in the face of competition from other schools...