Word: frogs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could never have been duplicated, even by Disney. Fortunately a British gentleman of Potterian sympathy has found an ideal method of adaptation-the dance. Using members of the Royal Ballet, Choreographer Frederick Ashton has literally given Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter a new dimension. Jeremy Fisher the Frog, Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mr. Fox and Co. spring and caper like Steiff toys given the spark of life. Around them spreads England's green and pleasant Lake District from which Beatrix drew her inspiration...
Inspired by Mark Twain's 1865 tale The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the old California Mother Lode town of Angels Camp has for the past 43 years sponsored an annual frog-jumping contest. The occasion, reeking of rustic America, always draws entries from across the nation, including those of Governors, Senators, Congressmen and their toadies...
Barry Hillenbrand, now in the Los Angeles bureau, comes from a family of physicians and dentists and was programmed to follow the tradition. "My total inability to master all 274 parts of the frog in college zoology turned my head and nose away from the profession," he says. Hillenbrand spent two years with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia and another 18 months at N.Y.U. studying to become a historian. While a graduate student, he became a stringer-part-time reporter-for TIME and decided to make a career...
Last Saturday night the water polo team got drunk and swam up and down the Charles River. While the group played leap frog on the Wecks and Lars Anderson Bridges, somewhere its competition in the second Boston invitational championship was fast asleep...
Bird, Plane, or Frog...