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It's been hard to say, though, whether we're innately philistine in our artistic judgments or have merely been deprived of decent choices.
Subscribers to Slate on Paper who wish to receive a culture-free edition, with all the reviews and other artsy-fartsy stuff sliced out at no extra charge, can e-mail us at philistine@slate.com, and we'll be happy to oblige.
There have been ups (like the time when we had a mailing service that kept adding new and renewing subscribers' names and addresses without removing the old ones, leading us not only into a state of euphoria contemplating our 20,000 paid subscribers but, at the same time, into near bankruptcy paying the attendent increased printing and postage costs without the expected revenues); and, of course, there have been downs (like falling behind so far in the publishing schedule that we changed the dates of the issues from May, September, December, March to Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (as in Of Thee I Sing! ), and the dismay and disappointment at the down-marketing of The New Yorker , once a stalwart—if expensive—source of new subscribers, now—still expensive—catering to the pretentious philistine market).
Now I'm a philistine who's been to Italy.
Shawn has been vocal about his belief that theater should be more political, but this government of philistine meanies seems more like a cheap device designed to give his play some tension.