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...middle sixties to say that needn't be so. Although Cabaret did retain many vestiges of the traditional musical--it had a plot all right and its characters still sang their thoughts to each other whenever that plot hit a crucial junction--it also introduced seemingly non-integrated throwaway numbers that commented on the plot rather than advance it. It all looked innocent enough--since Sally Bowles, the play's heroine, sings in a sleazy Berlin nightclub, the Kit Kat Klub, it was only natural that the musical would utilize some of the numbers she would have sung...
...insidious bigotry called age-ism," which leaves the young to "plod along in apprenticeship or chafe in alienation" and abandons the old to "draw Social Security, preferably well out of sight." The oldsters cheered his call for "a new national attitude toward aging," which "can end the 'throwaway psychology' " (see following story...
...cigarette package and almost as cheap. Frederic G. Withington of Arthur D. Little, Inc., described two opposing tendencies in the development of computers: the increasingly economical sharing of large computers by multiple users and the proliferation of minicomputers. If the second line is followed, then in a throwaway society Withington envisions a day when little computers will be "scattered around the country as thickly as empty beer cans...
...counterculture in throwaway America is not dead, dying or extinct. It is undergoing a rebirth, starting over again from its internal, self-generating life force: a rebirth, going over our history, finding out where we went wrong. New people will arise to solve the problems of the second generation of the revolution. The cosmic lid is back on the pressure cooker...
...happen: a fratricidal war between the makers of washable and disposable diapers. Seizing the environmental initiative, the powerful Diaper Service Industry Association will spend more than a million dollars this year on ads aimed mainly at Procter & Gamble's throwaway Pampers, which enjoyed a lion's share of the estimated $200 million market last year. "If you were a baby," goes one sample ad, "what would you want to wear-soft, cuddly cotton or stiff and sticky plastic and paper?" The pitch stresses that cloth diapers, unlike disposables, are reusable, a point bolstered by New York City hospitals...