Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pack of yippies unleashed a waggish demonstration in Tokyo last week. Howling for an increase in government-regulated imports of dog food, an estimated 1,500 dogs paraded, more or less under their owners' control, through central Tokyo to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Both owners and owned carried signs growling slogans such as: "Miserable Dogs" and "Fellow Doggies, Let's Bite Off More Allocations...
Freedom of Speech. The victory was won by Mrs. Jon O. Epperson, a onetime biology teacher at Little Rock's Central High School* now living with her husband and baby son in a Maryland suburb of Washington. Despite the law, textbooks teaching evolutionary theory have been commonly used in Arkansas schools, and no teacher has been prosecuted. But in 1966 Mrs. Epperson went to court contending that the use of the books made her a lawbreaker. The statute called for punishment by dismissal and a fine of up to $500. That, argued Mrs. Epperson, inhibited her freedom of speech...
...time of the barbarian invasions, the Popes emerged as Rome's most prestigious leaders. Leo I, who stopped Attila the Hun at the gates of Rome, was the first to use the term primacy in reference to the papacy. The Prankish King Pepin gave the Pope jurisdiction over central Italy-and for the next 1,000 years bishops of Rome were land-governing princes as well as the spiritual leaders of Western Christianity...
Oldenburg had gone on from plaster to vinyl and canvas. In 1962 he dreamed up monster hamburgers and bed-size pistachio ice-cream cones. Since then he has sketched a myriad of delightful "proposed colossal monuments" for Manhattan, including a giant Teddy bear for Central Park, and a mountainous baked potato for the front of the Plaza Hotel. Conceivably, Manhattan's festival organizers also expected him to whip up the baked potato. Instead, he had the city hire two gravediggers, who dug a 3-ft. by 6-ft. hole in Central Park, then carefully filled it in. He called...
...incorporates the notion of a phallus and an elephant's trunk. Cigarettes on a tray look like cannons (he kicked the habit of three packs a day). Oldenburg's proposed colossal monuments were never meant to be built. Who wants a 650-ft. high Teddy bear in Central Park? But they are real nonetheless-they exist in the form of drawings, as "concepts" rather than sculpture...