Word: infantalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pamphlet published by London's oddball Gaberbocchus Press. It consists of a page with seven words, a drawing of the Garden of Eden, two more pages with seven more words, a drawing of a Rube Goldbergian battle scene, and a final few words. Intended "for use in Martian infant schools," as the title page puts it, Ban-the-Bomb Bertie's text reads, in toto: "Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable." In case anyone misses the message, the pamphlet closes with a photo...
...capita income for the country's 20 million people is only $30 ($5 if Addis Ababa is excluded), and 98% of the population are illiterate. Some 80% of the population have parasitic diseases ranging from hookworm to elephantiasis; venereal disease infects at least half the adult population, and infant mortality is nearly 40%. Malaria kills 30,000 people annually, and 40% of the country's cattle are tubercular...
...Manhattan's Village Gate cabaret, Navarro announces (in Spanish and infant English) that the great liner is setting sail from New York-"ba-hoooooo." Then Spain and 10,000 oles as the matador enters the corrida. A veronica ("shwuss") and the bull flies past ("bohr-uhm, bohr-uhm"). Another 10,000 oles. With only a word here and there, Navarro moves on to England for the Queen's birthday and produces an affair of state: troops marching, planes swooping close by them (the sound of both at once), rifle fire, drums, bagpipes, bugles, hoofbeats, helicopters...
...peasants succumb easily to TB, gastroenteritis and chistosoma, a debilitating liver parasite that infects one-fifth of the rural population. Average life expectancy in Brazil's Northeast is 30 years, and in Rio Grande do Norte, 463 of every 1,000 babies die in their first year. Most infants are fed a diet of manioc flour mixed with molasses, never taste milk and sometimes do not even get enough water. In Cruz de Armas, a village in Paraiba, the government operates an infant "rehydration station," which dispenses a watery soup to hundreds of children carried in by their parents...
...Schirmer set up Standard Register in partnership with a Dayton business broker named John Q. Sherman. Within a year the infant company was in receivership, and Schirmer had sold out his interest to Sherman and his brother William. For a long time, Standard seemed doomed to the small time, even though the Shermans developed ways of converting the punched margins to typewriters and other business machines, competitors contemptuously dismissed Standard's punched forms as "lace panties" and "smallpox paper." Curfew at Midnight. During the Depression, Standard turned the corner by deciding to concentrate on producing specialized business forms-which...