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...little more than two years, a 25? magazine called Confidential, based on the proposition that millions like to wallow in scurrility, has become the biggest newsstand seller in the U.S. Newsmen have called Confidential ("Tells the Facts and Names the Names") everything from "scrawling on privy walls'' to a "sewer sheet of supercharged sex." But with each bimonthly issue, printed on cheap paper and crammed with splashy pictures, Confidential's sale has grown even faster than its journalistic reputation has fallen. It has also spawned a dozen guttery imitators, e.g., Hush Hush, The Lowdown, Exposed, Uncensored...
Instead of blaming the adolescents themselves, or their parents* (who often wallow in feelings of guilt about failing their children), or even the communities in which they live, Dr. Flanagan blames a breakdown in communication. "Too often," he said, "Mom doesn't talk to Pop, or Pop doesn't talk to Mom, and neither talks to Junior." What should they talk about? For one thing, tension is a common ingredient in modern life, said Dr. Flanagan, so both parents and adolescents should talk about whatever is eating them. More specifically, youths in the limbo between childhood and adulthood...
...sheet to a gigantic purveyor of news read by some 15,000 people daily. An on-going dynamism has characterized the first eighty years of Crime history, and there's little reason to suspect the trend will disappear.Yale alumnus, cartoonist Charles Osborne thinks the CRIMSON editorial writer likes to wallow in his own blood...
...mild and safe. With the "higher" learning there is implanted the fear of being a bit too stodgy. Schools seem to be producing precocious technicians who lean to believe life is long on treachery, short on rewards. Everywhere, almost, one hears the reiterated gripe against life. Students wallow in private resentments. The flair for evil things some students enjoy is more than a by-product of neurosis...
Once working for the CRIMSON, news and editorial men will find vast reams of copy-paper and hordes of typewriters at their disposal; photo candidates will be able to work with the bright new CRIMSON camera; and business board aspirants will be able to wallow in pools of silver and gold. Come...