Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Equal Time Last month we criticized magazines that claim to have high standards but accept advertising on harmful products like cigarettes. Now The Washington Post reports...
...Sign me-Too Late For Tears...
...The time spent living and working with the peasants has been condensed into a two-week period . . . . The cadres now devote four hours to manual labor and four hours to political study each day...
...Now The Washington Post reports that Playgirl has decided to root out a million dollars’ worth of its erotic advertising-30 per cent of its total ad revenue-in what vice-president Ira Ritter calls an effort to upgrade the product...
...Revolution and Red Tape Despite the greatest assault on bureaucracy in modem history, the bureaucratic spirit has endured in Chairman Ma03 China, according to this story by Ross H. Munro of the Toronto Globe andMail: “SHUN I, China-In the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Tse-tung issued a directive with far-reaching implications: China’s cadres should go down to the countryside to revive their revolutionary commitment through manual labor...
...20-A meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries opened here today with an Iranian official, speaking for the producers, recommending that oil be priced at $12 to $15 a barrel to guarantee investments in alternate sources of energy...
...Historical Footnote The art of identifying the significant or telling detail is one that all young writers should master...
...If we had it to do over again we’d have remained childless.-Rather Die Than Sign My Name “From Tampa, Fla: I am 40, my husband is 45...
...Illness, rebellion, lack of motivation (we called it shiftlessness and laziness in our day...
...What we’re talking about is the ads for vibrators and lotions, books and films, potency pills that actually are just placebos, ads that have been creeping into a lot of magazines recently...
...at the Hsuanwu cadre school, life has become quite comfortable...
...ible energy of Suni (he] lame since the childhood she describes charmingly in her book We Alwayr Wore Sailor Suits , V i g ) and the help of three young Argentine girls...
...It’s almost impossible to monitor some of these advertisers, and our running them is more or less an endorsement in the consumers’ eyes...
...One of their slogans was ‘maintain the spirit of hard work and plain living.’ “The May 7 school for cadres from Peking’s Hsuanwu District was perhaps typical...
...Some sample letters: “From Fargo, N.D.: My husband and I were married eight years befcre we had our first child...
...Within four years we had three...
...Another has gone loony with the help of a phony religious leader who should be in jail...
...Our children took all the romance out of our marriage...
...But seven years later, Munro reports, the bureaucrats are getting things back under control: “Much has changed...
...Now I’m an exhausted, nervous wreck who misses her job and sees very little of her husband...
...A recent visit found the cadres planning to build TV rooms and erect a prefabricated bathhouse...
...Within a few years, they’ll be bringing their wives...
...column in Vogue Thanksa Lot Department We have commented before on the Shah’s chutzpah...
...We both agree our happiest years were before we had the kids...
...The early years were difficult...
...When she flies in now ind again from her villain ‘the Newport of Italy,” Porto Santo Stefano, Susanna Agnelli instantly isks 12 friends to her New York apartment for a luncheon buffet...
...The routine allows plenty of spare time for recreational activities, such as volleyball and other ball games, theatrical and musical activities, television viewing, painting and, in the summer, swimming...
...Not one of our children has given us any pleasure...
...Two are now living in communes (we never hear from them...
...Yith Three Servants You, Too . . . . Buffets are booming, :verything served with naxi-speed, mini-fuss: xeakfast, lunch, or dinier...
...Another went the Gay Lib route...
...He’s got a ‘friend,’ I’m sure, and I don’t blame him...
...Seventy per cent answered No...
...Mr...
...I was an attractive, fulfilled career woman before I had these kids...
...Was it worth it...
...In a poor section of a commune northeast of Peking, the cadres slept on the ground in tents through the winter while they painstakingly built crude dormitories with their own hands...
...I’m too tired for sex, conversation or anything else...
...The third one was a mistake...
...From New York: I’ve lived 70 years, and I speak from experience, as a mother of five...
...They have brought us a lot of heartache and very little pleasure...
...We have two children under the age of eight...
...In October 1968, the cadres-a term encompassing bureaucrats as well as such professionals as teachers-began setting up May 7 cadre schools in the countryside throughout Cma...
...His myopia was more than matched by the people at Newsweek, who put together this front and back cover combination for the January 26 issue: Baby Talk Our picture of the happy American family has been shaken by Ann Landers who recently asked her readers: “If you had it to do over again, would you have children...
...God knows we did our best, but we were failures as parents and they are failures as people.-Sad Story...
...But Mary McCarthy hasn’t learned it, apparently, as the following example from her recent article about Hannah Arendt in 7he New York Review of Books suggests: “She liked shoes...
...The first crude dormitories stand next to new buildings showing excellent masonry and brickwork...
...Then I had my tubes tied and my husband had a vasectomy-just to make sure...
...For one or two months they lived with peasants and worked alongside them in the fields...
...from Leo Lerman ’s “People Are Talking About...
...One was seriously disturbed-in and out of mental hospitals...
...Ritter did not comment on PZaygirl’s cigarette ads...
...The answer is easy Italian dishes, the incred...
...in all the years I knew her, I think she only once had a corn...
...HOW does this whiz-who is mayor of Porto Santo Stefano and granddaughtex If the Agnelli who began he family’s Fiat auto :mpire-produce a dozen delicious Italian dishes and a roomful of laughter on a day when any othex .raveler would sag with jet lag...
...Here, from The New York Times, is the latest example: “Vienna, Dec...
Vol. 8 • March 1976 • No. 1
