Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Few know better than the Opies, a British husband-and-wife team whose previous exegesis of juvenile literature produced the authoritative Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). This time the Opies left the library to listen on school grounds. For eight years they hunted rhymes, rites and...
Each generation has a touching faith that its ditties have just been invented. The rhyme "House to let, apply within/ Lady turned out for drinking gin" was standard in 1892. The Opies have collected it as far away as Australia and South Africa, but little English girls are sure that...
Kelly & Jelly. To juvenile minstrels, adult foibles are fit for parodies that spread with lightning speed. During the crisis over King Edward VIII's abdication in 1936, when censorship hushed grownups, English children everywhere blithely chanted: "Hark, the Herald Angels sing,/ Mrs. Simpson's pinched our King."
The really enduring lore is the local jargon of dark doings-the terms for playing hooky, teasing, scrapping. The extraordinary thing, report the Opies, is the abiding loyalty of children to prattle that seems "more vastly entertaining to them than anything they learn from grownups." TV will never conquer the...
In Waterville, Me., a tall, friendly man of 65 sat back and mused: "I think I was born to teach, not to be a college president." J. (for Julius) Seelye Bixler should have known better. Last week, as his successor prepared to take over solid little Colby College, retiring President...