Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mother and Father can take down the pictures and store the rocking horse in the attic, pluck the magnetic alphabet off the refrigerator door. Maybe they can find some other use for the room with the yellow wallpaper. Or they could close it up and seal it like a tomb so they can go about their grieving for the merry little girl they love and are about to lose...
...Harvard Business School, every building has name on it. I wouldn't be surprised if every toilet has a name on it," Alpert said, adding that many buildings at the Medical School are identified simply by letters of the alphabet...
Using each letter of the alphabet, Watson listed what he considered were the keys to success for the Black community...
OSCAR DE MEJO'S ABC (HarperCollins; $17). Year after year, the alphabet book is reinterpreted for new readers. This year's freshest version is a series of 26 deceptively simple paintings that celebrate scenes of Americana. B is for the Boston Tea Party; J is for Jazz; P is for Patrick Henry; S is for the Statue of Liberty; U is for Umpire. And X? That stands for Xmas, of course. May yours be merry and bright...
MARTHA SPEAKS by Susan Meddaugh (Houghton Mifflin; $13.95). Martha, your average family pooch, eats the alphabet soup and starts speaking fluent English. Trouble is, she won't stop. Finally the family rises up and orders her to shut up. Which Martha does, until the day a burglar comes to call ... The whimsical author-illustrator gets an occasional case of the cutes. Usually, however, she is wise enough to let the tale...