Achieve phoniness in just 15 minutes !

 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 !