Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politics of Survival. That the magazine will merely parrot Soviet policy-in Yiddish-seems clear on almost all 130 pages of its first issue. Obscure Yiddish writers are represented, but the magazine's tone is set by excerpts from Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's autobiography, sentimental songs about Cuba and the Congo, and a poem celebrating the wonders of a Siberian hydroelectric project...
MISS ESTA MAUDE'S SECRET (story and pictures by W. T. Cummings; Whittlesey House; $3.25) is as American as Our Town. Esta Maude Hay is a spinster schoolteacher who lives in a rickety house on the edge of town, with two cats, a goldfish and a parrot. She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine." But Esta Maude has a flaming secret vice, a racy, sin-red sports car that she drives like the wind of a Friday midnight. Author-Illustrator Cummings manages to be folksy, foxy...
Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by André Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by civilized...
Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by Andre Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by civilized...
Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by André Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by man in his first major civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Under the general editorship of André Malraux, Sumer is the panoramic premiere of some 40 volumes that promise to reduce the celebrated "Museum Without Walls" to paper...