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...done an anatomy of modern mass man. As the stereotype has it, this is the man who will be reduced to electronic button pushing and social homogeneity, tutored to spend his leisure time with Shakespeare and symphonies. Brose shows no such inclinations. Industrial technology is a fascinating toy to him, and he is the contented child of pop culture; yet he has a curious, steely desire to think for himself. The old sanctions of God, church, state, family, boss, work have all dropped out of his ethical vocabulary. He is a law unto himself, frenetically comic, highly individualistic, a little...
THIS AGE OF VIOLENCE, by Fredric Wertham. A clinical psychiatrist's indignant analysis of the seeds of violence in contemporary society, from toy guns and war games to TV drama and current fiction. Not even Superman or the Unknown Soldier gets a clean bill of health in this unsettling though probably oversimplified book...
...week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art with 48 prints by 15 artists. In the opinion of the museum's print director, William Lieberman, the pioneer of the movement is Robert Rauschenberg, who in 1964 created a print called Shades, which was, in effect, an art-toy-graphic. He transferred bits of newspapers and magazines onto a lithography stone, then inked and printed the image on an acetate sheet, which he in turn laminated on Plexiglas. Finally, he illuminated the whole thing with a light bulb. The result: a movable electric 3-D graphic...
...station in one week, the author found 334 completed or attempted killings, mostly during youngsters' viewing time. The heroic figure in TV and movie drama is often the "victorious man of violence." Toy manufacturers fill the Christmas counters with toy guns and war games. Even Superman is unhealthy fare: "the embodiment of racial superiority, race pride, race prejudice." Explains Wertham: "No dark-skinned or dark-complexioned or not-so-tall-or-so-full-chested youngster, whoever he is or whatever he achieves,' can measure up to the white Superman.'' The adult, too, is everywhere assaulted...
...unseen narrator. Actually, it is a tense little moral essay on true and false innocence, demonstrated in terms of a hat with dancing birds on it. The hat has been made by a homosexual for a fancy-dress party, and now a child wants the campy millinery as a toy...