The toughest call. “Number of calls the Illinois Animal Poison Information Center received last year regarding pets swallowing marijuana: 68” (Harper’s “Index,” September 1990).
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Gone underground. Martin Marty of the University of Chicago divinity school warns complacent liberals that “there are not fewer fundamentalists than there were before the Pentecostalist scandals, the folding of Moral Majority tents, and the signs of corruption that came with power. They believe roughly what they always did but have slunk away from some of the frontal attacks…. The scenes of struggle in the ’90s are…school boards, library boards, church councils, zoning boards, and hospital boards…. The media are stumped; many communicators think fundamentalist-like action is disappearing simply because they do not have people named Robertson or Falwell in their cameras” (Context, August 15).
“Moving into Ukrainian Village is kind of like joining the Mafia,” writes Barry Pearce in Real Estate Profile (August 24). “If you’re not a member of the family, your chances of getting in are slim.”
Don’t worry, be happy. The LaSalle Financial Planner (August 1990) reminds us that the U.S. still has 621 TV sets per 1,000 residents, compared to 377 in Japan and 250 in West Germany.
