Word: etch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even bigger this year. Latest entrant: General Electric, which is aiming at the pre-teen market with a variety of advanced do-it-yourself kits (analogue computer, transistor radio, electricity lab). Two big sellers are Ohio Art's Magnastiks, a construction toy that utilizes a magnetic field, and Etch A Sketch, an updated and challenging version of the old magic slate idea...
...decades into a remarkable kind of living newspaper. Yesterday's paper is always dead, but the paper of ten years before yesterday is hypnotically alive. Dos Passos does not try to see beyond the headlines; he knows that history is headlines, plus elapsed time. He lets time itself etch the irony, write the parody, underscore the pathos. To relive history, as Dos Passos makes clear, is not all pleasurable nostalgia; it is also to feel the pain of an intolerable madness...
...standouts: a triumphant final sextet celebrating the "lesson of love," and the heroine's sprightly address to a mirror to variations of Come, Come, Ye Saints. The opera's weakness is its sameness of tone, its tendency to pile layer upon layer of melody, its failure to etch a real musical profile. Deseret has the musical makings for half a dozen operas but the ideas for scarcely...