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...partial answer lies in many people's willingness to settle for a little bit of titillation. Their lives are so barren that merely reading about the slightly less barren lives of the momentarily famous offers a thrill. Time Inc., in keeping with its corporate tradition, has decided to profit from this sad situation. Peoplecertainly does little to improve the content of its audience's existence. Rather, it is an effort to exploit the sorry state of victims with 35 cents burning a hole in their pocket...
...much can one thrill to a showdown featuring black and white cotton tails? The answer depends partly on how much one can accept Adams' conceit that rabbits "are like human beings in many ways." Adams' rabbits, like people, are divided into leaders, prophets, poets and even comedians. ("Do you know what the first blade of grass said to the second blade of grass?" asks the hlessil Henny Youngman. "He said 'Look, there's a rabbit! We're in danger!' ") The most favored Adams rabbits seem to speak in U accents ("I say, what...
...maturity level of the Dartmouth spectators certainly did not exceed that of those elementary school pupils. You probably remember the power you felt when you first said those curse words that supposedly made you an adult. The thrill of cursing has apparently not faded for the Greenies. Flouting authority is big in junior high, when pranksters spit from third-floor windows and smoking in the johns is required by the cool group. This need to be accepted apparently still motivates the Dartmouth student...
...thrill of watching athletics has not faded, but the respect for the performers has dropped. Fan identification with the home team has degenerated into an attack on the opponents. Harvard was subjected to both mental and physical abuse by a Big Green crowd that was sure its actions would help insure a Dartmouth victory. However, one must ask, victory at what cost? If sport has degenerated into war, its value to both spectators and players is uncertain...
...gestures. Pennsylvanian Hugh Scott, the senate minority leader has been overwhelmed with pro-impeachment letters, but when the White House announced that two of the tapes were missing, he simply said, "The machine age is not perfect." And the popular "honk for impeachment" demonstrations just don't have any thrill to them when the president is two full hours down I-95 or in San Clemente or Key Biscayne. No blast from a car's horn in Philadelphia can rattle the White House windows. There is no satisfaction in booing Nixon from a distance...