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...message was aimed at Madison Avenue. But it also managed to reach many of those old ladies of 34 and up whom Redbook says it does not want-even though they comprise about 55% of the magazine's approximately 4,000,-000 women readers. The reaction was scornful. "Since I'm rapidly approaching the ripe old age of 46," wrote one subscriber, "I guess you don't want me. So you may be assured I have subscribed for the last time." From the mature perspective of 38 years, another reader informed the magazine...
...prepared to ask Congress next month to eliminate the disclaimer requirement in the Act, and there seems little doubt that Congress will agree. The proper time to apply for antipoverty grants will be after Congress has acted. Harvard's role in the NDEA controversy was that of a moral reader the Administration reply to Archie Epps's thoughts on the antipoverty application suggests that Harvard no longer finds this a natural role...
...tiresome. Then Genet smiles like an urchin trying to charm a cop and admits that describing vileness "with words that usually designate what is noble was perhaps childish and somewhat facile." In such a way, being allowed to see that such honest admission of fraud is itself fraudulent, the reader is led through the shallows of Genet's soul. "I keep no place in my heart where the feeling of my innocence might take shelter," he writes at one point, seeming oddly innocent...
...reader who knows Genet as an author of power and glittering malice, as he appears provocatively in The Balcony and shatteringly in The Blacks, sees him here as a lesser and more engaging writer-a strangely amiable, seedy, not-to-be-trusted guide for a morning's excursion through the cooler outer regions of hell...
...reality that unblocks Thornhill also undoes him: his auto accident, the reader puzzles out, was actually suicide. Before he dies, Thornhill sets down his final truth: marriage, or any human relationship, is founded, and thus founders, on the "illusion that a man can care for someone other than himself." The artist's purpose, he concludes, is to uncover and exorcise all such illusion...