Word: aped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demi-centenarian ape and his best friend, the man in the yellow hat, are the stars of a popular opus that has been delighting children of all ages--but mostly those under eight--since its creation. Presumably, the man in the yellow hat, who found George in a jungle, turned 50 simultaneously...
...characters are the invention of the husband and wife team H.A. and Margret Rey, who penned the ape's first adventure in 1938 in France, where they lived in exile after fleeing Nazi Germany...
...century of efforts to quantify physiological differences between the races has yielded plenty of anthropological mumbo jumbo. In the early days of Darwinism, some European scholars suggested that the major races had each descended from a different species of ape: Caucasians from chimpanzees, the most intelligent nonhuman primates; Orientals from orangutans; and Negroes from gorillas, the biggest and blackest...
...many here at Harvard. (Infact, T.M.U. is grounded in the Harvard tradition, having lifted the Harvard seal and substituted Verifast for Veritas.) Students at T.M.U. get a minute-by-minute--i.e., course by course--written outline. Each period begins with appropriate sound effects. There are snores for philosophy and ape squeels for biology. The professor gives a summary at the beginning of each class--for example, in biology, "I'm a mutant. You're mutant. We are all mutants...
...compact-disc adapters, orthopedic seat cushions, heated seats for winter, and computers with cruise control and estimated time of arrival (up to $149). Upscale drivers install $2,000 car phones (although in Los Angeles, where there are 65,000 subscribers, airwaves are jammed in rush hours). Ordinary folk can ape "techie" drivers by ordering an imitation antenna from Warshawsky for a mere...