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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grows. Any parts picky humans do not want to eat can be fed to cattle. As Horticulturist Jack Kelly of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences puts it, "It's like the butcher's pig. Everything's useful but the oink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Plant | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...mistake to dismiss the book as a male chauvinist oink--it winds up as just that, I suppose, yet it's such a lovingly reasoned and felt-out explanation of how he does feel...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 3/22/1972 | See Source »

...mistake to dismiss the book as a male chauvinist oink--it winds up as just that, I suppose, yet it's such a lovingly reasoned and felt-out explanation of how he does feel...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

...Lyman that he had to deal with the question of H. Bruce Franklin, associate professor of English, recognized expert on Melville, and self-proclaimed Maoist. Only a month earlier, Franklin had joined a band of students in heckling Henry Cabot Lodge, former U.S. ambassador to Saigon, with cries of "oink-oink." When Lyman complained that Franklin's behavior was inappropriate, Franklin agreed, adding: "The appropriate response to war criminals is [that] they should be locked up or executed." Lyman now proposed that Franklin be fired on four charges of disrupting the university by incitements to violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Inciting to Violence | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...march to talk to police representatives. He again showed them the permit, which cleared the marchers all the way to Harvard Square. The police cars and cycles began turning around and heading back toward Boston to the applause of marchers-"Little piggy, I think you better go now. Oink, oink, bang bang, dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Word From the Soundtruck Was 'Go All the Way to Harvard Square' | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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