Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be politically correct in the resuscitation of the children's classic The Story of Little Black Sambo [BOOKS, Sept. 9], let's at least get the facts correct. Anyone who has ever read the original Sambo story knows it has nothing to do with Africa, but was set in India. For one thing, wild tigers are not found in Africa; they exist only in Asia. Also, Africans are not the only black people in the world. The dark-skinned folk in the story have characteristics similar to those of an ethnic group in southern India. To assume that...
...Pool. A classic collegiate game, pool is almost preliminary, warm-up event to the heart of the competition. Generally, hand-eye coordination is still intact, which means that players of high skill and low tolerance manage to perform fairly well...
Founded in 1946 at the Hasty Pudding Club, the group celebrated its 50th anniversary last spring. The group performs classic ballads and light jazz from the 1920s to 1950s, according to former member Jordan A. Cooper...
...Ruth is therefore very pregnant. But the young women have already been nurturing three children whose personalities they assume now and then: the legendary French wild child, raised by wolves; an endearing little child prodigy; and the character who floats up, up, and away in the children's lit classic, "Le Ballon Rouge." The problem? Peter tires of this imaginary-children nonsense. The solution? Well, that can be the thorny bit, as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" aficionados know...
...Rules Girl is "a creature unlike any other." A Rules Girl knows better than to ask a man out--or even talk to a man first; she is "easy to be with" but hard to get because she is very, very busy. Three decades after Helen Gurley Brown's classic Sex and the Single Girl offered women the heady advice that men are "cheaper emotionally and a lot more fun by the dozen," all that solo flying seems to be less than thrilling. That must be why self-help books on dating have at last evolved into The Rules: Time...