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...delicious essence remains as elusive as its geography. Although Morris keeps a straight phrase, Hav is not discernible in any atlas or gazetteer. Look for it about halfway between Oz and Lilliput...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

When the Harvard women's basketball team traveled to Syracuse and Cornell this weekend for a road-trip doubleheader, it must have felt a little like Gulliver traveling between Lilliput and Brobdinag...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Hoopsters Chew Big Red | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Next stop, Lilliput. The gnomes of Cornell were the very antithesis of the mighty Syracusans: small, timid and unskilled, and the versatile hoopsters, now finding themselves in a much preferable situation, had no trouble stomping "Little...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Hoopsters Chew Big Red | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Entrance: The Tramp. His mustache, bowler and jacket are all from the Salvation Army of Lilliput. The pants and shoes are Gulliver's discards. The step is shy, tentative, then jaunty. He is going for a walk in the jungle of the city. Titters, Howls and Boffos hang from every bough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Re-Enter Charlie Chaplin, Smiling and Waving | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...deeper purpose is to fathom the psyches of seven stolen children whose innocence is only skin deep. Blood kin to the tykes in Henry James's Turn of the Screw or William Golding's Lord of the Flies, they are remote, ritualistic, amoral-natives of a savage Lilliput that adults invade at their own risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kids Are Worse Than Pirates | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

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