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...School Sociologist Ernest van den Haag says, "Public relations can seduce, but it cannot rape." What is often most troubling is that p.r. can place a kind of shield between the public and reality. It creates the feeling that smiles are not quite real, laughter not quite spontaneous, wit not quite unrehearsed, praise or blame not quite from the heart, elegance not quite instinctive, courage not quite brave and virtue not quite clean. The best p.r. men know the danger. They also know how and when to get out of the way and just let life happen. More...
...Chicago on a five-count indictment charging them with various conspiracies. The presiding judge was Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who, according to Wobbly John Reed, had "the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead." The accused were found guilty and their sentences ran up to 35 years' imprisonment. Wobbly wit flickered a last time when Ben Fletcher, the only Negro defendant, cracked: "Judge Landis has been using bad English today-his sentences are too long...
Aristotle said that a play should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. This one has two out of three. Peace begins with brilliant scatology--and brilliant scatology is far more difficult to create than brilliant wit. It ends, in a breath-taking 20-minute sora, with stirring satire--and satire that stirs you is the rarest and most wonderful kind. But the middle, oh the middle, is what they tell me Hasty Pudding shows are like, and second-rate Pudding shows at that. You can say that bad and irrelevant jokes are genuine Aristophanes, but that excuse comes...
...anonymity and a dull, if cultured, public speaking voice, Kosygin emphasizes moderation and maintenance of peace. He is a widower-his wife Klavdia died of cancer last month-and has a married daughter, Liudmila Gvishiani. For all his drab public façade, Kosygin is capable of sharp, dry wit. On a visit to Britain last February, while dining with Tory Leader Ted Heath, he observed: "It is less fun to be in opposition in some countries than in others...
...Shahn, D.A., painter. Pathos, protest, wit and wisdom shape this lively artist's telling work...