The post-literate society

[Gregory Geboski]

Re pop star/pitchman Papa: Was this in the 1920s-30s, or was it 1950s-1963, 
after he became a Cold War symbol of American cultural superiority and a 
publicist's exemplar of manly virtue?

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: Re: The post-literate society
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:01:38


>From: "Gregory Geboski" <ggeboski at hotmail.com>
>
>As is typical with most conservative whiners, his own ignorance is
>appalling. Were Hemingway and Fitzgerald ever bigger stars than, say, Jack
>Dempsey or Benny Goodman?

Bigger?  I dunno.  But Hemingway was certainly a pop-cult star of the first
magnitude.  For instance, he was, I believe, a pitchman for Ballantine Ale
or somesuch.  The last living novelist I can recall being featured in an ad
campaign was Tama Janowitz.  BTW, whatever became of her?

Carl
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