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Some of us at the Quad have found this year's brouhaha, the breakfast issue, to be, well, almost amusing. Suddenly, discontent rolls through the campus, activism's rebirth is heralded, Wheatena is a cause celebre, and universal agreement is that Dean Fox is a villain. Well, it seems almost equitable that everyone else in the University has gotten exposed to this man and his methods, because we at the Quad are only too familiar with John Fox. He took the Quad. which was once a strong and supportive community whose sole crime was its not being, and not wanting...
...backpacks of mules in the U.S. Southwest. "I'll have your guts for garters!" a military expression, can be found in Robert Greene's 16th century The Scottish History of James the Fourth, Act III, Scene 2: "I'll make garters of thy guts, thou villain." "Sock it to me," of disc jockey notoriety, can be found as far back as Mark Twain: "In chapter 33 of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Yankee, who is, naturally, the narrator, gets into a sociological argument with the smith and says...
...Rasputin of fraud. The straggly hair that frames his craggy Florentine features is a fright wig of deceit. His flamingo legs carry him with awkward zest from sin to sin, while his tongue utters unguentary lies. Yet we are too conscious that he is a self-aware villain, scoring stunning acting points without carrying complete emotional conviction. And Stefan Gierasch's Orgon is not quite the ideal foil. He seems more like an exacerbated paterfamilias who wants Tartuffe to cow his recalcitrant brood rather than a breathless gull hopelessly infatuated by a bogus saint...
...final problem with the media blitz is not one of content but one of methods. Again, Mobil seems to be the chief villain. This summer it launched a new program whereby prominent cartoonists were hired to draw cartoons subtly embued with the Mobil message. An example is one by Roy Doty of a man standing in his back yard, axing to bits a rubber hose which was in the process of supplying water for his inflatable swimming pool. Another man turns to a puzzled neighbor and says, "He's explaining how breaking up the oil companies would work." Another cartoon...
...suddenly no longer a man to be despised, a man to rage against; Haldeman is now grotesque, a man whose activity has become locked around one period in his life, when he was on hand to help twist American history. When Mee finally meets the enemy, the duplicitous villain he had expected turns out instead to be an object of pity. Watergate is an obsession for Haldeman, but Mee does not need to linger over those unpleasant details. His anti-Nixon tirade and his meeting with Haldeman have purged his pent-up anger, and he can calmly await the renewal...