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...brothers, teachers, old friends, faithful dog and so on. But look at the evidence: One of my earliest memories is of asking my mother to explain the E.B. White/Carl Rose cartoon: "It's broccoli, dear." "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it." (That caption, by the way, is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.) Other memories: we are all working in the garden. Someone holds up a piece of our all-too-tenacious ivy and cries "Watch out Fred, here it comes again!" My dog announces his wish to re-enter the house. "I hear...
...emperor Constantine, who took many things from many places to his new city of Constantinople, did not move the capitol from Rome(your caption, November 14). It's still in Rome. I have seen it myself. Ernst Badian Professor of History
...scrupulous study of freedom and the sometimes questionable requirements of the "civilizing process." Every Man, a prizewinner at this year's Cannes Festival, is a casebook of insensitivity. Every character is vigorously and grossly caricatured. The short supply of ideas is presented with all the insight of a caption in Ripley's Believe...
...book come from attitudes women could once laugh off, but now snarl at. A 1915 cartoon by Rollin Kirby, which appeared in the New York World, showed four men around a tavern table drinking and smoking with a newspaper whose headlines read: "Woman's Suffrage Defeated." The caption on the cartoon reads: "Well, boys, we saved the home...
...editorials to cartoons, photos and even advertisements. This further muzzling of the press may have been in response to a few cases of surreptitious sniping at the government's measures; in Kerala, for example, one paper ran a cartoon depicting Mrs. Gandhi dressed as Louis XIV with a caption reading "I am India." The censors also closely monitored the dispatches of foreign newsmen. Last week the government summarily expelled Washington Post Correspondent Lewis M. Simons, who had stirred official ire by reporting that the army did not solidly back Mrs. Gandhi...