Word: piglet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seasons also has food. From goose to mousse, it has one of the highest-priced-and most exotic-menus in high-priced Manhattan, in league with Chambord, Le Pavilion, Colony, Brussels, "21." A typical dinner for two, from Sweet and Sour Pike in Tarragon Aspic ($2.25) through Piccata of Piglet in Pastry ($5.25), to genuine Violets in Summer Snow ($1.75), can easily cost up to $70 with drinks and tips. Seasonal foods and delicacies from all over the world are rushed to the restaurant by plane; its $100,000 wine cellar holds 15,000 bottles. If a visitor...
...prayers ("Oh! God Bless Daddy -I quite forgot") and the tantrums of his little friends ("What is the matter with Mary Jane?") worked their way into the repertory of mothers, nannies and children on both sides of the Atlantic. Billy's stuffed animals came to life as Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga and Roo. As if these animals were not enough, Milne invented some others, e.g., the Heffalump and "a sort of a something which is called a wallaboo...
Finally the pig came. We went outside to see it, and everybody was disappointed because it was a baby pig. Some of the girls said how cruel the chase was, but most of the others just wanted to get on with it. The girl who was holding the piglet let it go and it ran a few feet and was caught by eight or ten I.O.C.A.ers. It was let go again and caught again. That was the pig chase...
Among Britain's moppet set, he is as famous as Pooh or Piglet, sells faster than Alice, is better known than Kenneth Grahame's Mole. He has appeared in eight 10,000-word books (10 million copies), five Noddy annuals, four strip books, 20 small books, been translated into everything from Swahili to Tamil to Hebrew. Last week, after he made his debut on the stage, London critics had to admit that Noddy in Toyland...
...Piglet Paradigm. Competition in the world of the young is not all-out; in this, it imitates the adult world of business and politics in which they will move. Modern business competition turns around "marginal differentiation," i.e., competing products imitate each other, yet call attention to small differences. Increasingly, businesses group themselves in trade associations and businessmen look to their competitors, rather than to their own accounting department, for the signals that mean success. Their attitude toward their own work is not that of producers, but of consumers. Morale is bucked up when a business decision meets the approval...