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...Levine has been defeated; not by a fair and honorable vote, but, like mankind's clearest dreams throughout the ages, by the sycophants and martinets who inevitably gravitate into The Establishment. Defeated; not by the honest efforts of her adversaries, not by an honest election, but by the baleful poison of small bureaucratic minds, which crawl and plot at night...
...fair to them, The Wizard of Oz really is a horror story, with this grackle-voiced, green-skinned, chin-warted apparition hurling fire from rooftops, skywriting ominously with a flaming broom, or saying: "Now, my beauties, something with poison in it. Heh! Heh! Heh!" Hearing that, one child remembered hopefully, if a bit inexactly, that "last year Dorothy and the Wizard poured hot water on her and she melted." The Wicked Witch will melt again this year, but not from the children's memory. Into bed they will crawl singing "Ding, dong, the Witch is dead," only to stop...
...even then there were enough outspoken Negroes to keep Mr. Hoover busy. That year he assumed directorship of the General Intelligence Division of the Justice Department and promptly reported that "the reds have done a vast amount of evil damage by carrying the doctrine of race revolt and the poison of Bolshevism to the Negroes." To illustrate his case to Congress, Hoover brandished these damming quotes from the contemporary Negro press...
...technically advanced nation still lacks mass television. In white-ruled South Africa, the government refuses to permit TV on the ground that it would corrupt both the white minority and nonwhite majority.* Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has more or less put TV in a category with atom bombs and poison gas. "They are modern things, but that does not mean they are desirable. The government has to watch for any dangers to the people, both spiritual and physical." Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Albert Hertzog has put the government view just as bluntly: "The effect of the wrong picture...
...task, how he adopts the means available to the specific need of a problem, is the final point and main emphasis of the show. And it becomes quite apparent that Mr. Gregory considers appropriateness the key consideration. He wouldn't stop to argue with Dwight Macdonald about the poison of "kitsh"--what Macdonald calls the advertising non-art of middle class taste. Rather, Gregory suggests through his selections that there is a need for the highest standards of design in the content of communication as well as the world view...