Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reserve System is driving the economy of the United States into self-destruction." Russell M. Rockwell, the owner of Rockwell Equipment Co. in Hamilton, Ohio, says sharply: "I don't think the Federal Reserve knows what it's doing. It's like a two-year-old kid squeezing the kitten to death, and he doesn't realize he's doing...
...gain some sense, courses in "kid lit" are becoming part of the curriculum at most major universities. The adult who was once the main focus of medical and psychological scrutiny now has a competitor. Today, says Historian Philip Aries, "our world is obsessed by the physical, moral and sexual problems of childhood...
...only contemporary "serious" writer to have sought a small audience. Novelists and poets like John Updike, Randall Jarrell, Alison Lurie, John Gardner, Elizabeth Janeway and Ursula Le Guin have produced exemplary children's books. Of course, scholars and artists are not new to the libraries of kid lit. A generation ago, Essayist E.B. White composed his classics Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, and Humorist James Thurber wrote The Thirteen Clocks, just as, a decade before, Oxford Don J.R.R. Tolkien had written The Hobbit, and before him, another Oxonian, Lewis Carroll, had produced the Alice books. But seldom...
...Left (and I will use that label even if Marlette won't) cartoonist in the middle of the Bible Belt. "After a year or two at the Observer," Marlette says, "my editors were getting a lot of pressure from the powers that be. What were they doing allowing this kid to come into Charlotte with both guns blazing?" Partly in response to this uproar, the editors moved Marlette's cartoons to the Op-ed page, where they could more clearly be seen as distinct from the opinion of the newspaper itself...
...Steeler defense has suffered from injury. Mean Joe Greene has been meaner than ever, but even the coke commercial kid can't be a one man defense. The "Steel Curtain"--Pittsburgh's defensive line that has given new neaning to the term Cold War--is showing signs of rust. The line averages over thirty years of age, and the comparatively youthful lineman Robin Cole has been out injured most of the season...