Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riots that bloom in the spring, tra la. And the first students to gallop out of the labs and libes for the annual monkey-see, monkey-do monkeyshines were the fair sons of John Harvard. Seems some sycamores along Cambridge's Memorial Drive were due for the ax (TIME, Feb. 14), and before anyone could bellow "Rinehart!" 2,000 undergraduate tree lovers rushed to the defense. "Two, four, six, eight, sycamores foliate," chanted the Cantabs fiercely. Then the crowd decided to block traffic instead. That brought the cops, who brought four dogs, which brought indignant cries of "Cambridge, Cambridge...
Prison Education. India's struggle for nationhood has almost totally absorbed Indira Gandhi's energies. "My public life," she boasts, "began at three." At twelve, she banded other children together in the illegal "monkey brigade," whose task was to sneak political messages past British soldiers. One visitor to Nehru's Allahabad home was gravely informed by his daughter: "I'm sorry, but Papa and Mama and Grandpapa are all in prison...
...comedienne. And it has a pervasive air of desperation that leads to the inevitable masked-ball finale in Rome, with fireworks going off, Sellers in a suit of armor bumping into Cleopatra, and a pair of cat burglars dressed as gorillas-presumably with the hope that a lot of monkey business will perk up a tired Panther...
...times have changed. "The Eve of today needs bigger and better leaves to catch the man of her wishes. She also needs instinct, feminine intelligence, and as sharp and observant an eye as any monkey or cat was ever born with." A considerable bank account helps, but Mrs. Guinness is not bothered by such trivia...
...introduction to modern society the Negro was technologically and culturally inferior, and this is the "monkey" with which he must deal, Kilson said. As a result, a cultural inferiority complex has become as integral part of being a Negro, he continued...