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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT BIG ENORMOUS TURNIP, by Alexei Tolstoy, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Watts; $3.95). "The mouse pulled the cat, the cat pulled the dog," etc., until mouse, cat, dog, granddaughter, old man and old woman get the enormous turnip out of the ground...
...Although the Apollo 10 crew has been criticized for profane language [May 30], the fact is that Eugene Cernan merely called the attention of the universe to his ill-behaving craft. What better thought could he have had than to remind "Snoopy" of his dog-mother in order to straighten out his puppylike behavior...
...roly-poly extravert who looks as though he had never given up his youthful job as a pâtissier. Although he serves as the party's chief propagandist, Duclos wisely concentrated on giving Communism a friendly face and good one-liners-including the name of his dog, Pompon, after his favorite political opponent. Asked why his party disavowed the militant New Left, whom Frenchmen have nicknamed Gauchos, Duclos replied: "Gauchos, but they're American!" He seldom lost the chance to rumble mechanically against inhuman labor laws and big banks, but he performed best on the personal level...
...care less, and he said so, for the earthworm was in the receiver now and they were ready to go. But Betty was upset, and she said, "Look, Martin, I could have lied to you and told you I was stuck in the snow, or that it was my dog's birthday, but I'm telling the truth!" Martin barely heard her; the pleasure was intolerable. He screamed into the phone, "LOOK, BETTY YOU'RE LYING!! IF YOU EVER WANT TO GO OUT WITH ME, JUST GIVE ME A GODDAMN PHONE CALL; IF YOU DON'T, GO FUCK YOURSELF...
Without passion, the first 70 pages of Tike chronicle one of the most beauteous single days you could ever spend in fiction or in life. Tike is a boy who lives in a room and works nights shelving books at a library. He has a dog named McDog and an unfailing fountain of music from his stereo. A lady gives him a record for his helpful knowledge of discography. A girl downstairs named Val wants to sleep with Tike and does. Other people in his building invite him into their lives...