Word: pincushions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismayed when he returned to New York in 1904 and discovered the first philistine skyscrapers being stuck into Manhattan "like pins in a pincushion." But what really shattered Author Henry James was a stroll through his once beloved Washington Square. He searched for the house at No. 21 Wash ington Place where he was born, and found the site occupied by a dreary clothing factory. "Its effect for me," he wrote later, "was of having been amputated of half my history." It also rankled James that the city of New York had not seen fit to erect a small monument...
...duties are vague and undemanding: he sees students only when he feels like it, and he is in residence no more than a couple of months a year in the medium-sized, blue-and-white plywood dome where he and Anne live in Carbondale. It looks like an overgrown pincushion without pins. But Bucky does not mind, and does not see why anyone else should. As he once wrote in a light moment, to be sung to the tune of Home on the Range...
There are also instructions on how to make a Voodoo Dolly Pincushion and what to do with I-is-for-Ink: "Ink is black and wet. Ink is fun. What can you do with ink? What rhymes with ink? D R -." There is a friendly hint about brushing the teeth: "If you do not brush your teeth, they will get dull and yellow. If you brush them, they will be nice and white and bright. Maybe a wild black panther will crawl in your window some dark night and look around for someone...
...measure of Charles de Gaulle's declining prestige among France's restless intellectuals that they now feel free to make De Gaulle himself a pincushion for barbed French satire. The shafts fly at him from right, left and center. On radio, television and in Montmartre cellars, the traditional chansonniers gibe irreverently at De Gaulle's big-power pretensions and the docility of his Cabinet. A favorite target is Premier Michel Debré, who is depicted, not altogether incorrectly, as a puppet and errand boy. One chansonnier lyric has De Gaulle asking Debré the time. Debr...