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  1. idiosyncrasy
    a behavioral attribute peculiar to an individual
    In retrospect, all of these ads offer a revealing glimpse of the cultural idiosyncrasies of the past and the evolving perspectives of the magazine’s readers.
  2. dynamo
    a coil that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet
    Others, such as a nineteen-sixties Philip Morris ad featuring a smart dynamo named Barbara, show how certain companies shrewdly marketed their products as tools of social liberation.
  3. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
    It stopped allowing testimony from its own contributors and avoided ads for dubious products like patent-medicine cures, which were a fixture of magazine pages back then.
  4. perspective
    a way of regarding situations or topics
    In retrospect, all of these ads offer a revealing glimpse of the cultural idiosyncrasies of the past and the evolving perspectives of the magazine’s readers.
Created on Thu Sep 19 07:34:00 EDT 2013

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