Word: grownups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tipped-off police hoped to forfend a fracas by locking the freshmen inside the Old Campus. But the freshmen broke out, chanting "We want sex, we want sex," as they streaked for a dormitory occupied by women graduate students. The graduate girls peered out the windows and smiled tolerant, grownup smiles. Then the demonstrators headed for New Haven's Taft Hotel where police resorted to billy-whacking and pistol-packing to herd them back to Old Eli. Score: 17 arrested, one hospitalized. In Providence, the vernal urge for lingerie led marauding Brown University students to congeneric Pembroke College. Said...
Gentle Erskine Caldwell. Untermeyer not only wrote for Modern Masters but serves as Crowell-Collier's talent scout in rounding up other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches...
Children's Songs (Ed McCurdy; Tradition). Singer McCurdy pays his listeners the highest compliment that a grownup can pay a child: he enters their world on even terms. In a manner as comfortable as a man lounging over the back fence, he chats about Billy Boy, The Old Woman and the Pig, Froggy Went A'Courting...
Donated to the city by former Governor and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, the zoo is a brightly colored fairyland that is designed to make adults feel just a little bit as if they were intruding in somebody else's territory (see color). A grownup must be accompanied by a child to get past the moppet-height turnstile (admission: 10?). The coin-operated dispensers for animal food are knee-high, and the waste receptacles are painted to look like enormous green and yellow frogs (FEED ME PAPER) and big brown bulldogs (I EAT ANYTHING...
...test their skills, improvising scenes on park benches and in crowded bars, making speeches before street loungers to see how well they could handle audiences. Her first big-girl role (at 16) was opposite James Dean in Rebel; it won her an Oscar nomination and a smooth transition into grownup films...