Word: passepartout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canned rations (one rumor has suggested that food in the hostelries where delegates are staying would be garnished with ground glass), ham radio (no phone service), walkie-talkie (if radio fails), chrysanthemums (for flower power if cornered by militant hippies), first-aid kit, gross of aspirin, and finally, a passepartout, collectively endorsed by A.D.A., Y.I.P., the Geneva Conference, Mayor Daley, the Black Panthers and Interpol, certifying that the bearer is an accredited seeker of peace, racial harmony, revolution, law and order and legalized...
This pattern may spread, may well be the shape of domestic service in an industrial democracy. And so, alas, exeunt Jeeves, Passepartout and Pseudolus, to become IBM cards in the files of an impersonal Mary Poppins, Inc. No "existentialist bond" perhaps, no love lost, no mutual dependence. But at least-and at best-a new, professional sense of service and a more civilized life...
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