Word: lightered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protesting the Viet Nam war, Miller announced: "I believe the napalming of villages in Viet Nam is an immoral act. I hope this will be a significant political act, so here goes." Then, while cameras whirred, he set fire to his draft card (classification 1-A) with a cigarette lighter...
...years, Robert Emmet Sherwood became successively a well-known movie and book reviewer, magazine editor, script doctor, playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night) and speechwriter to President Roosevelt. In this effusive biography, Critic John Mason Brown leans heavily on the lighter side. The reader hears all about Sherwood's sensational buck and wing, his low-keyed Algonquin witticisms, his red-eyed passion for high-stakes poker, model airplanes, and croquet in Central Park at $10 a wicket. Unhappily, Biographer Brown requires 386 pages to take his subject from...
...going to carve roast beef with his Ronson!" gasps the sloe-eyed young thing in a recent ad for Ronson Corp. "Isn't that a bit much for a little cigarette lighter?" Of course it is, but that shows how much she knows about him - or Ronson. He's going to slice the roast with his Ronson Carve 'n' Slice electric knife, just as he shaves with a Ronson shaver, shines shoes on a Ronson electric buffer, and brushes his teeth with a Ronson electric toothbrush...
...able to do a lot more with four new products that Ronson is bringing out this week. The four: a rotating electric hairbrush that massages as it grooms; a combination blender-cooker that whips up omelets or sauces; a butane-fired chafing dish; and a somewhat improved butane cigarette lighter, with the first do-it-yourself replaceable spark wheel. Such innovations are expected to help raise sales from last year's $69 million to $77 million in 1965. That's quite a bit for a company started 70 years ago by a tinkerer named Aronson, who invented...
...page report calls the Ed School's "guiding conception of educational study...fundamentally sound" but proposes "a considerable shift [toward] greater emphasis on doctoral training." Distributed over the week-end, it also recommends a post-doctoral program, special direct-action institutes, lighter course loads for faculty, and more seminars and discussion groups...