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...DOESN'T LOVE mocking a really cheesy TV ad? But advertising can at times have the power to strike a deep chord and even spawn lasting pop-culture icons. Award-winning adman Philip Dusenberry, longtime chairman of BBDO North America, created those kinds of pitches. His magic, say his peers, was an intuitive sense of the emotional impact of his work. Before taking on the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and, in the wake of 9/11, New York City tourism ads, Dusenberry led such campaigns as "Pepsi: The Choice of a New Generation" (including, regrettably, the commercial in which...
...stars seem to be aligning for a new consensus-driven renaissance at Harvard. The Committee on Campus Life (CCL) is soon to spawn a subcommittee on student group funding in the aftermath of the Party Fund fiasco. A joint subcommittee of the CCL and the CHL will soon begin contemplating College-wide alcohol policies for House events...
...didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat a salad.” I had developed a life-long aversion to vegetarianism, growing up in a place where most vegetarians and vegans were aged hippies or their equally self-righteous spawn, convinced that in denying themselves protein and pleasure they had earned a karmic bonus to lord over the rest of us. I refused to go over to the dark side. So I turned to books and became a vicarious carnivore. The genre of food writing is similar to any other specialized...
...seen you naked? I came out of the womb clothed! Neither of my parents have genitals! Only then did I realize that my 11 year old sensibilities had not been so off the mark—instead of being raised by Ken and Barbie, I was the spawn of a pack of lawless Jewish hippie crazies! I wasn’t a prude, but my family was perverted...
...disappeared, leaving some to assume they had died in captivity.Many, including Berry, believe one of the birds surfaced—stuffed—in the collection of John Tradescant Sr., the former royal gardener to King Charles I. Tradescant Sr. continued to collect exotic plants and birds, helping to spawn England’s 17th-century “Cabinet of Curiosity” movement, a craze that would endure well into the Victorian era, and later propel Harvard’s faux dodo into existence.Tradescent Sr. willed his collection to his son. By then the menagerie of oddities...