Word: pie
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...framework and guide for the material in the other 29 volumes. The concept of the Propaedia stems from the Greek words that constitute the term encyclopaedia: the whole circle (or complete system) of learning. Adler describes the content of the Propaedia as a "circle of learning" that is divided, pie-like, into ten major segments: matter and energy, the earth, life on earth, human life, human society, art, technology, religion, the history of mankind, the branches of knowledge. Within the ten segments there are 42 divisions, 189 sections and 15,000 separate subjects-each of which is accompanied by references...
...victimization. As long as the prisoners of class and the prisoners of race must make self-destructive choices, they will continue to fight each other for the breadcrumbs. But after all, they choose to act this way and this kind of free choice is as American as apple pie, Watts, Hough, Bedford-Stuyvesant and in a few years, Flatbush...
...KISS FOR MOTHER by Tomi Ungerer. 40 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $5.95. Piper Paw is a bad-hat young cat who cannot abide being called Honey Pie by his mother, Mrs. Velvet Paw. Nor can he stand her icky kisses. After plying the little creep with Casserole of Mole Innards, mother finally slaps son into silence. He buys her yellow roses and they come to a kissless domestic stalemate that is better than their sweet-and-sour past. A very sharp and funny book...
...different sort of short on the same program is Pie in the Sky, an improvised farce on the American pipedream, featuring a young Elia Kazan...
...roscoes." Although the U.S. has no corner on the world's violence, no nation offers its citizens such grand opportunities to display their dissatisfactions with such destructive results. A few random examples, courtesy of Sherrill's research: Dateline New York. Two youths ask a shopkeeper for apple pie. He offers them Danish pastry instead and is shot dead. Ohio. An engineer living near an Air Force base tattoos a number of bomb-laden B-52s with his deer rifles to protest their takeoffs over his house. California. A Glendale landlady loses an argument with a tenant when...