Word: bambi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donkey's Years. Young George got the lowdown on marriage quite early. People did get married, of course, but it wasn't really necessary. Bambi, for example, lived a very good life indeed until a fanatical, strait-laced white lady persuaded him to marry one of his women. Until then, as Boy Blue related: "He wus livin' with Bots an' Bambina both all two at the same time, for a long, long time. An' they all had children for him. Bots had Puss in Boots Number Two an' Suck Me Toe, an' Bambina...
Citation: "Student at Columbia University, a senior editor of TIME, author of Witness, translator of Bambi and of several French and German books, who, after finding the error of his way, tries with some hesitation due to inner conflict, but with complete dedication of spirit and every resource of a brilliant mind, to arouse the American people, lulled to Circean inactivity, to the treasonable conspiracy against the country and the destruction of the Christian values implicit in our civilization and is met with public defamation, the eyebrow-raising of spiritual vagrants in and out of government, the supercilious superiority...
Brown Beret. Wages on the Worker were so intermittent, and so small, that Chambers cast about for a part-time paying job. His Columbia friend Clifton Fadiman, knowing his skill at languages, offered him a book to translate. It was Bambi, and its immediate success established him as a translator...