Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.

[Q]: My purpose in writing to you is twofold. First, to inform you of some recent activities of the SPEA MHA Alumni Association and second, to ask for your commitment, both financial and participatory.
[A]: I am writing to you to inform you of recent activities of the SPEA MHA Alumni Association.

[Q]: In a more general sense-and this has nothing to do with conspicuous consumption-both homes and clothes convey values. Carl Larsson's home was a statement of both his and Karin's naturalistic aesthetic ideals, so was James Tissot's exotic sitting room.
[A]: Besides consumption-both homes and clothes convey values. Carl Larsson's home was a statement of his and Karin's naturalistic aesthetic ideals, so was James Tissot's exotic sitting room.

[Q]: Many a raucous snigger has been sniggered from the pure-minded use of a word that suggests unmentionable parts of the human body. It does not take a too-wicked mind to read into such terms meanings of a lewd nature.
[A]:
Many a raucous snigger has been sniggered from the pure-minded use of a word that suggests unmentionable parts of the human body.