I read and respect The Christian Science Monitor. But its
advertising is not above ethical and intellectual level of our more
despicable used car salesman. On page 5 of the June 12 paper appears
a full page ad for a vocabulary building course : " Now, you can amass
a HARVARD GRADUATE'S VOCABULARY in just 15 minutes a day ! "
The suggestion here is that in just a short time you also
acquire a Harvard graduate's intellectual ability and the APPEARANCE
of an Ivy League education.
Now how do you REALLY improve your mind ? By serious and
prolonged study of intellectually challenging literature. Anybody who
suddenly begins to use a high powered vocabulary invariably makes an
ass out of himself : THE GREAT PRETENDER !
May I suggest that 15 minutes a day spent reading YOUR
newspaper editorials ( and NY Times, Boston Globe, Providence Journal,
USA Today.... The National Inquirer ) may do more to improve the
mind of the ambitious nitwit - too mentally lazy to READ good books ?
After taking your advertised VOCABULARY COURSE , you may
qualify to run for the Mayor of Providence - as the EDUCATION candidate.
But I might prefer our Buddy Cianci and his Federal Hill
equivalent of Ebonics. Tell it like it is, Buddy !
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