Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy canvas bags over their shoulders and set out through sycamore-shaded streets. They crisscrossed the broad lawns in front of white frame houses, tossing parcels from their bags up under porch swings and wicker chairs on the wide, front verandas. Then screen doors would squeak and bang, and children would squabble over who would carry them inside. A new issue of the Saturday Evening Post had arrived...
...fans a winning team." Danny said that Georgie encouraged the players to ask for more and more money and that he was turning them against the management. Georgie's wife said that her husband's only intent was treating the players "as if they were his own children...
Last week all the children finally made up and Danny rehired Georgie. Danny said that Georgie was a "big man," and said that he was so "dedicated I thought I should reconsider." Georgie said that "I came back for one reason because my players stood up for me," And so everybody in Los Angeles lived happily ever after-or at least until next season...
After a hollow, hilarious party at which the guests talk only in the language of commercials, a television director named Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) decides that he needs his baby sitter more than his children do. With her in tow, he ricochets from Paris to the Riviera to an idyllic island where he hopes to end his days. He gets his wish: what begins as a fable of ennui ends as a parable of evil...
...clerical reactionary, has attempted satire in formal rhymed Popian couplets, and perhaps only W. H. Auden has succeeded in didactic eloquence within a variety of formal, traditional stanzas. Doubtless, the exact antipode of Pope's Augustan order would be the artless, extemporaneous effusions that issue from the flower children of the modern coffee house-quite a different breed from an 18th century coffee house. "A thousand years may elapse," Dr. Johnson said, "before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope." With a quarter-millennium nearly gone, a reading of Quennell...