Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grandfather's Pencil, written and illustrated by Michael Foreman (Harcourt Brace; $14.95), is a dreamy tale of an English boy who finds a magical pencil lost by his grandfather, an old sailor. The boy sleeps. Moonlight floods his window. The pencil writes by itself, remembering its early life as part of a great tree. The paper it writes on remembers being logs in a wild river. The room's floorboards were part of a ship that flew a black flag. The grandfather was a boy; the boy will grow older. Fine drawings whisper the twin secrets of storytelling: long...
Teaching fellows told students who filled out the Committee on Undergraduate Education's (CUE) response forms in Moral Reasoning 22 ("Justice") on Thursday that they would not need to use a No. 2 pencil. Hundreds of souls rejoiced in the recognition of revolutionary science as they whipped out their ball-point pens...
With the obsolescence of the No.2 pencil, one of this nation's major industries will certainly collapse. Graphite production will disappear except for the minuscule amounts needed for lock lubricants. Lumber yards will fall silent as thousands of glistening yellow and blue No.2 pencils with their red rubber erasers sit idly on stationers' shelves...
There's only one help for the pencil trade. We must conceal this advancement in mechanical tabulation from developing nations that still rely heavily on No.2 pencils! We'll keep them in the dark ages until some industrial spy manages to squeeze the secret out of a less-than-scrupulous CUE Guide worker. By that time, we'll have switched all those pencil-producers over to defense contracting...
Nope--he was hesitant to even pencil B.U. into his Final Four, saying that there isn't anyone on the Terriers' squad who really "takes charge" during games, a sound judgment borne out by Brown's 3.2 upset win over B.U. Sunday here at Ohiri Field...