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Still Flying High, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
October 22, 2014
On the Shelf
Detail from the cover of the first issue of
High Times
, 1974.
Ben Bradlee
has died at ninety-three
: “In his personal vernacular—a vivid, blasphemous argot that combined the swear words he mastered in the Navy during World War II with the impeccable enunciation of a blue-blooded Bostonian—a great story was ‘a real tube-ripper.’ This meant a story was so hot that [Washington]
Post
readers would rip the paper out of the tubes into which the paperboy delivered it.”
High Times
turns forty
: “It’s easy to forget how radical an outrider of the counterculture this magazine was. Its editors were (and are) brave, subversive and funny. They’ve tended to take nothing seriously except for one crucial thing: the way so many lives have been destroyed by an inept and misguided war on drugs.”
A well intentioned, poorly executed update to the Scrabble dictionary
has turned into “a clusterfuck,”
reliable sources indicate. “There are typos, valid words which have been excluded, and invalid words which have been included … The biggest issue among competitive players is the lack of a publicly available electronic version of the new list … Because of Hasbro’s copyright, and the absence of a public electronic list, errors have been tedious to identify.”
Tolstoy’s 1889 novella
The Kreutzer Sonata
was a famously caustic attack on his wife, Sofiya.
She struck back with “Whose Fault?”
, a rebuttal in the form of a short story: “Like Tolstoy, Sofiya criticizes the sexual double standard, but she’s far more sympathetic to women, who are kept in ignorance until marriage, then expected to satisfy their husbands and remain beautiful and docile through a long series of pregnancies and betrayals.”
“There was a long period when
an outhouse was a perfect convenience
, and a well-built one could be a luxury good. The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum in Wethersfield, Connecticut, is trying to recapture their golden age with an unusual kind of restoration project: The refurbishment of three high-end outhouses—or privies—from the late eighteenth century.”
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