WWW. "I am writing to express my dismay over the use of a TV jingle at this year's spring concert. I can hardly think of anything less appropriate for an elementary school chorus to sing than an advertisement for Coca-Cola. Who's getting paid for this adventure in brainwashing? Also, why hasn't anyone kept the children from singing 'furnish it with love' so that it sounds like an obscenity--or am I the only capable of noticing this?"--Excerpt from a letter (dated April 15, 1972) to a school superintendent in Plainview, New York, found in Board of Education archives in 1978



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