gOkg I s A supt KIS NARY POPPINS IS A JUNKIE Syndicated columnist Norton Mock ridge started a wall-watching trend through a recent column on graffity, the one-line scrawlings found on bill boards, washroom walls, and fences. Some on the notable ones range from "Hugh Hefner is a Virgin" to "Take LSD and See." Graffiti, which have usually rank ed below limericks, have gained a new respectability in intellectual and even medical circles. Edward Albee now admits that a line in a Greenwich Village lavatory inspired the title "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," and two UCLA professors feel that grafitti may suggest a message of human w k nature. The latter, psychiatrist Harvey Lomas and his associate Gershen Weatman, presented their report, a result of five months of scouring the Los Angeles area, 4. at a meeting of the American Psych iatric Association. They concluded i that people write graffiti to prove themselves, insult, excite, or to communicate opinion or humor. Graffiti run'a wide range. During the furor incited by Yale University's pronouncement that the Vikings discovered North America, (for its Quotation of the Day), the New York Times chose, a graffito from an Italian district in Boston: "Leif Ericson is a Fink." Same sophisticated ones appear on the walls of the men's room in Harvard's Lamont Library: *War is Good Business--Invest Your Sons," "Reality is a Crutch;" and "God '4 Isn't Dead--He Just Doesntt Want To Get Involved.* Mockridge found *God is Dead— .lTietzche.ll Underneath that someone'" had scrawled "!Nietzche is Dead--God.! Public personalities also draw their share. -lAT.:Edgar BOover sleeps with a Night-Light;"' "Ad Hoc Committee to Draft George Hamilton"'; "StaMp Out Bert Parks" and "Ronald Reagan Eats Peanut Butter." However we found one that we considered to be the best in the elevator of a University Park Dormitory. "Oral Roberts is a Contraceptive."
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