Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TAKING stock of a troubled chapter of current history, this week's cover story, written by Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum, examines the state of Alabama and its Governor, George C. Wallace. For the background of his cover painting, Artist Boris Chaliapin chose the broken window of Birmingham's bombed-out 16th Street Baptist Church as a particularly striking symbol of the depth and bitterness of the struggle...
...Abyssinia. He was indeed a nuisance, even to the men who hired his skill. From Lord Beaverbrook, for whom he went to work in 1927, Low exacted the promise that he could draw whatever he chose. That choice was rarely to the proprietor's Tory tastes; Low's brushwork punctured the Conservative Party, the Beaver's dreams of British Empire, and the Beaver himself. Low once depicted his boss as a witch on a broomstick, preaching "politics for child minds." When Beaverbrook urged his staff to go light on Mussolini's rape of Abyssinia, Low impudently...
Mother Dark Her rulers chose All branded with her mark. Alas! They learned too well the "light" Then brought home the yoke...
What worked were words that touched upon wellsprings of inner life, especially fear and sex. To build a "key vocabulary," Teacher Ashton-Warner daily asked her tots, "What word do you want?" Among the words children chose: love, kiss, darling, ghost, bomb, alligator, police. Each child took home "his" word, printed on a big card, learned it without effort. Using these "one-word captions of the inner world," the kids went on to write a daily autobiographical story. Sample: "Mummie got a hiding off Daddy. He was drunk, she was crying." Or: "My Father got drunk, and He drank...
...grocery chains by stopping Hunt's longtime private-label canning for them to push products under Hunt's own name. After the war, he decided that the best way to make Hunt known Nationally was to concentrate his advertising and promotion on a single item. He chose tomato sauce, and launched a major campaign that eventually captured half of the U.S. market for Hunt...