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Among the "knee-bouncing" children's songs they sang were The Lamplighter's Hornpipe, in which Evelyne accompanied Beers's down-home riddle playing with the clackety-clack rhythms of "limberjacks" (a pair of loose-legged, hand-carved puppets), and a square-dance tune in which Martha played a squawky solo on the "cornstalk fiddle" by drawing a shoestring bow over the strands of a cornstalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Life from the Hearthside | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...oyster more." Human beings respond in more subjective ways. Living near the end of a jet runway, for example, does not bother airport employees nearly so much as airplane haters, whose complaints about noise rise sharply just after crashes. Typewriters may irritate nearby people, but typists need some clickety-clack for job-satisfaction; using a noiseless machine, says J. B. Priestley, is like "typing on a steak and kidney pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHEN NOISE ANNOYS | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...current Spirit says true to its model. The drawing emphasizes the detail of light, shadow, and angular point-of-view that distinguished the dramatic visualization of sound effects: one superb panel shows a progression of muddy footprints on concrete, the words "click" and "clack" written in tiny lettering next to each foot puddle. With the possible exception of Leonard Starr's newspaper strip On Stage, The Spirit is comic strip art at its most inventive...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Return of the Spirit | 7/26/1966 | See Source »

Reed's draft card, registration certificate, and notice of classification were destroyed on the Voluntown farm of the New England Committee for Nonviolent Action. Miss Barbara L. Clack, a member of the Committee, held the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Destroys Draft Card, Will Present Ashes to His Board | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...Miss Clack said that she assisted in the burning to express her solidarity with all those who are opposed to military conscription and to the "idiocy and immorality of the American war in Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Destroys Draft Card, Will Present Ashes to His Board | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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