Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yugoslavs will present four plays in Serbo-Croatian, with earphones providing instant English translation. Aleksandar Popović's Bora, the Tailor, Alfred Jarry's King Ubu, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roger Vitrac's Victor or the Children Take Over will run in repertory in the Forum Theater through July...
...progressing into an "Age of Unreason," said the columnist, commentator and quondam politician. Its heroes include "Norman Mailer and a couple of children in tennis shoes deciding to levitate the Pentagon"; its politicians include such men as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who thinks that "a President with too much power is a President without Schlesinger at his side"; its liberal economics lean to the quaint axiom that "there is some virtue in elongating the distance between where a dollar is collected and where it is spent...
...think we're a violent nation now, just wait until our young children grow up. My childhood was neuter dolls, chutes and ladders, and Little Lulu. Today's childhood is erotic dolls, authentic replicas of war guns (complete with vivid sounds) and a Saturday morning TV listing with enough sadism and murder to give even the most hardened criminal ideas...
...passed a registration ordinance. In Chicago, a voluntary turn-in campaign has prompted the surrender of 75 guns a day. Florida's Jordan Marsh and Burdine's chains quit selling toy guns, while Sears, Roebuck, the world's largest retailer, stopped advertising weapons as well as children's "toys of violence." A surprising exception to the mood of reevaluation; Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy, who insists that controls are a state rather than a federal matter because of widely varying conditions, and who warned against legislating "under panic conditions...
...hearings. Cohn's retelling, though, is more dialectic than discussion, and its only virtue is that it provides yet another unedifying glimpse behind the Senate caucus-room scenes. More interesting is his sentimental portrait of the off-camera McCarthy. Here is Joe hiding four dozen toys for visiting children; Joe eating cheeseburgers in fancy restaurants; Joe giving a plane ride to an antagonistic correspondent; Joe, in defeat after censure, slumping in a chair to watch a TV soap opera...