Word: toxicants
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...connection not lost on some of Spillane's excoriators. Frederic Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent was an indictment of comic books and their supposedly toxic influence on kids; the only novelist Wertham mentioned was Spillane. In a way, that was acute. The kids who read comics before World War II were ready for stronger stuff, but with the same bold, obvious, shall we say cartoonish verve. And Wertham was right in fearing that the comic-book worldview was one that would not fade, like acne, as the kids grew up. They would demand adolescent popular art forever...
...abysmal—think concrete shoeboxes—and most English classes are taught entirely in Polish. In times like these, we all need our potatoes. Americans, on the other hand, epitomize the anti-potato attitude. If not carbohydrates, we worry about carcinogenic vegetables, radioactive cell phones, and toxic seafood. Incidentally, small talk on Polish trains never gets near PCBs or farmed Alaskan salmon. Americans wonder if what’s on their plate will do them in. Poles wonder if you’d like some more potatoes. So, it seems I’m in for a potatoey...
...World Cup. Public-relations campaigns alone, however, cannot explain the flag mania that has gripped the country. That Germans seem to have discovered their flag and its stylish possibilities does not give cause for concern to our immediate neighbors, who were invaded during the course of a more toxic burst of nationalism. The current popularity of the national colors seems rather to be a celebration of a more relaxed feeling about our German past, identity and the displaying of national symbols. Leo Fuerst Augsburg, Germany
...provoked an unexpected outburst of black, red and gold on cars, faces, clothes, or draped from windows. That Germans seem to have discovered their flag and its stylish possibilities does not give cause for concern to our immediate neighbors, who were invaded during the course of a more toxic burst of nationalism. The current popularity of the national colors seems rather to be a celebration of a more relaxed feeling about our German past, identity and the displaying of national symbols. Leo Fuerst Augsburg, Germany
...Brown - and his speaking style has a lot more street cred than Brown's. Blair himself is the product of an Edinburgh school, Fettes, that is often called the Scottish Eton. A lot of institutions that used to symbolize and perpetuate inequality in Britain seem to have lost their toxic punch; the royal family, for example, has never been more popular. What about Eton? What lessons is it imparting today, to what kind of boy? Is it manufacturing smug toffs, or are its students being equipped to make an honest living in a more classless, complex world? A visitor...