Can there be a better symbol for American capitalist values
than Macy's department stores ? In " The Making of the President 1960 ",
exhausted -and not a little crazy from the campaign - we read about Richard
Nixon standing outside Macy's in New York City .... " You know, you can buy
anything in Macy's ... " and that's what makes this country great...blah,
blah ".
Perhaps if Nixon only LOOKED better on TV - had Kennedy's dazzling
Hollywood smile - HE would have won the election. After all, radio listeners
perceived him as the winner of the " great debate ".
On page G12 of The Providence Journal today ( April 16 ) we
read an article titled " We really want a set of pearly white teeth that
dazzle ". And there is no excuse for not having that great smile :" Teeth
whitening has become so cheap and easy that the only excuse these days for
dingy gums is apathy or deliberate contrariness " . The writer here does
not give a fleeting thought to health and dental insurance - which logically
should not even be separate - the human body being an organic WHOLE .
On the editorial page Froma Harrop writes about one middle
aged Macy's employee, Elsa Yanowitz, who loses her job because she
refuses to fire an un-pretty woman doing a good job selling cosmetics.
Capitalist society corrupts the soul in every which way, does
it not ? Have pearly white teeth that dazzle - all the better to swindle
people ! Arthur Miller's character, Willie Loman, got it right : " It's
a jungle out there ! " .
A revised play might be titled : " Death of a Sales-woman "
Everywhere in the advertising world : SMILING FACES, LYING FACES !
than Macy's department stores ? In " The Making of the President 1960 ",
exhausted -and not a little crazy from the campaign - we read about Richard
Nixon standing outside Macy's in New York City .... " You know, you can buy
anything in Macy's ... " and that's what makes this country great...blah,
blah ".
Perhaps if Nixon only LOOKED better on TV - had Kennedy's dazzling
Hollywood smile - HE would have won the election. After all, radio listeners
perceived him as the winner of the " great debate ".
On page G12 of The Providence Journal today ( April 16 ) we
read an article titled " We really want a set of pearly white teeth that
dazzle ". And there is no excuse for not having that great smile :" Teeth
whitening has become so cheap and easy that the only excuse these days for
dingy gums is apathy or deliberate contrariness " . The writer here does
not give a fleeting thought to health and dental insurance - which logically
should not even be separate - the human body being an organic WHOLE .
On the editorial page Froma Harrop writes about one middle
aged Macy's employee, Elsa Yanowitz, who loses her job because she
refuses to fire an un-pretty woman doing a good job selling cosmetics.
Capitalist society corrupts the soul in every which way, does
it not ? Have pearly white teeth that dazzle - all the better to swindle
people ! Arthur Miller's character, Willie Loman, got it right : " It's
a jungle out there ! " .
A revised play might be titled : " Death of a Sales-woman "
Everywhere in the advertising world : SMILING FACES, LYING FACES !
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