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...short, is never off duty. That is his pride and his eventual torment. He is a compulsively strict constructionist of culture. A somewhat prickly man, the reader will guess. Well, George Jean Nathan anticipated that objection: "The critic is no gentleman, and the gentleman is no critic...
...nose at me, I had to remind myself again and again of the distinction between expression and action. I don't imagine it will be much easier for others. Bearing in mind that it is no test of citizenship to abide only the man who agrees with us, the reader can test his own allegiance to the First Amendment by computing how much of the anthologized material to follow he is willing to defend. He will, as well, learn which disturbs him the least- the obscenity, the pornography or the politics...
...away with writing it. In general. then, it squirts. And Grapefruit's problems can mostly be laid on its orientation, which is definitely (almost exclusively) to those of us who are often stoned. Being obviously the work of someone who "must have been stoned" (often). it invites the reader to do likewise and rather effectively excludes the reader who doesn't. That is the tragic flaw of Grapefruit : that it is not for everyone, that it fails to embrace...
...Reader Referendum...
...Bulletin's reader referendum was included in an article entitled, "How should Harvard vote its stock in General Motors." which appeared in the April 13 issue. As of last Friday, over 1500 of the 22,000 Bulletin readers had replied to the enclosed questionnaire...