Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloodstream. In fact, many potentially harmful chemicals occur naturally in familiar foods. Spinach is rich in oxalic acid, which is the foundation for a common type of kidney stone. (Popeye in real life would have suffered endless agonies from passing stones.) Carotene, the pigment that puts the color in egg yolks, sweet potatoes, mangoes and carrots, is used by the body to make Vitamin A-but consumed in excess causes a kind of jaundice...
...ideas of John Dewey, Italian Educator Maria Montessori and Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner. Discovery classrooms, in essence, are informal laboratories where children gain an early familiarity with the principles of Euclidean geometry by manipulating variously shaped objects, and learn fundamentals of counting and reproduction by charting the egg production of classroom hens. As Piaget said recently, "a ready-made truth is only half a truth. The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things...
...Ethel Merman's and a tongue as agile as Dorothy Parker's; she made her Broadway debut in 1931's Here Goes the Bride, scored hits in 1943's Voice of the Turtle, 1953's Mid Summer and 1966's The Butter and Egg Man revival, and appeared in more than 200 TV shows, most notably The Man Who Came to Dinner and Burlesque...
...wife. "Nobody can be dragged out and shot," counters the suspicious junior American ambassador (Ted Bessell), "without written consent of the American Government." But from this intriguing negative nothing develops. Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence...
...ROTTEN BOOK, by Mary Rodgers, illustrated by Steven Kellogg (Harper & Row; $2.50). At breakfast one morning, in between telling Simon to eat his egg, his parents are discussing a little boy who is "rotten, absolutely rotten." And Simon begins to imagine all the things he would do if he were rotten. The detailed pencil drawings show him racing through a supermarket, cutting off his sister's hair and finally going to jail. The text by musical writer Mary Rodgers (Once Upon a Mattress) is deadpan funny...