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Word: edsel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edsel Margin III and Karl Shapiro agree with millions of other solidifying citizens that America is in the sticky clutches of its children. It makes these two men angry; it makes them nervous; it gives them sour stomachs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Youth Movements | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

They do, however, differ in an important way. Edsel Margin III is Author Frederick Crews's caricature of a conservative political commentator who confronts the world as if it were a meet between the Yale and Harvard debating teams. A member of America's processed aristocracy, the third Edsel not only has the courage of his convictions but the confidence of his accent and vocabulary as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Youth Movements | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...Edsel Margin III, one of the three commissioners, is, like Karl Shapiro, apocalyptic and apoplectic, but he has a well-defined target: Benjamin Spock -not the war hater, but the baby lover. Margin creatively misinterprets Dr. Spock's book Baby and Child Care as a blueprint for totally permissive child-rearing, a Communist Manifesto of the U.S. infantocracy, the cause of all the troubles from Yalta to the Yippies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Youth Movements | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...intellectual wired into the highest power sources, he has written a book entitled Think Clear or Die. He wants to apply systems analysis and game theory to the national diaper rash; yet he has the touch of a hip nightclub comic: "I hate to break the news to you, Edsel baby, but thrift went out with Little Orphan Annie and her anal-retentive boxtops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Youth Movements | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...waitings-in-wings of the 1968 candidates. Reporter Clark Mollenhoff of Cowles newspapers saw his George Romney: Mormon in Politics rolling off the presses just as the Michigander's presidential hopes were being buried in New Hampshire. Said Mollenhoff: "Now I know how it felt to build an Edsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: Campaign Casualties | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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