Word: playpen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Familiar arguments about the cultural elitism of public television have been dredged up. "When working-class Americans are being pitched off Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left who would love to get on the air and read their gaga...
Last night, in the considerably smaller playpen of the IAB, Wagner's infant basketball program threw away its swaddling clothes. The Seahawks defeated Harvard 82-73, outscoring the Crimson 44-29 in a second half comeback...
...fully modern form, the same mistake of seeing Vietnam as a pawn of the Superpowers that got the U.S. involved in the war in the first place. During the war the U.S. sought to "save" the South to "contain" China. Now the whole region is seen only as a playpen for the client nations of the two Communist superpowers. The legitimate bilateral concerns that the U.S. and Vietnam might share are neglected...
...Wyoming Republican Malcolm Wallop. It called for return of the canal to the U.S. if either country violated the new treaties. New York Democrat Patrick Moynihan angrily called the idea "inane" and "devoid of intellectual content." Said he: "We are reducing the Senate to a playground of juvenilia, a playpen of prepubescent youth." After colleagues objected to the unusual personal attack, Moynihan apologized...
...designs range from what Zakas calls "Big Stuff' to "Small Stuff' and encompass just about every kind of furnishing. One project, designed under Zakas' supervision by Parsons Student Stephanie Dieterich, is titled "the Knockdownable Sensuous Topograph"; a cross between a playpen and a bed, it is easily disassembled and can be made for about $40. A less felicitously named objet, a 4 ft. 10 in.-long coffee table designed by Student Greg Peterson, is called "Plumber's Dream"; a bronzed glass top mounted on plastic piping and sundry elbows and joints, it has a kind...