Word: playroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tolerance would urge that such productions are not intended to be read at all but to form an expensive, highly colored, temporary parquetry for the playroom floor. But suspicion suggests that the same kind of mind is at work here that tries to purge Huckleberry Finn from the schools, that deliberately holds back "reading skills" to some arbitrary "age-group level...
...evenings until 9:30, and for a few hours at weekends. One of the biggest is South London's Newington Lodge, a grim, high-walled pile of sooty red brick. Known in welfare-state parlance as "suitable alternative accommodation"-though it lacks a sick bay, nursery, playroom and adequate toilets-Newington Lodge last week held 266 women and children from 72 fragmented families...
...more crowded than either the Big House or the summer White House is Bobby Kennedy's twelve-room cottage: some of Bobby and Ethel Kennedy's seven children have to double up. Because the children spend so much time out of doors, Ethel has made their playroom over into a brightly colored second living room. In every bedroom are bunches of petunias, snapdragons, gladioli and cosmos from the Kennedys' carefully tended flower gardens. At night, hurricane lamps light the dining room...
...Brown in California's 1962 gubernatorial election. Painfully mauled in 1958, the California G.O.P. needed a ticket leader like Nixon, who boosted 22 new Republicans into Congress last November while narrowly losing the presidency. As they pulled their rattan chairs a little closer together in the Nixon playroom and sipped their cocktails, the visitors strained to hear whether their host would be willing to run. His decision: probably...
...Judgment." After they digested their host's arguments, Nixon's guests moved from the playroom to the poolside patio to digest roast beef, nine vegetables and fruit glace. They had, in effect, been turned down. But when they left the party, they took with them one faint but sweetly sounding if. If, promised Nixon, 60 days of political soundings left them still convinced that he was the only man who could beat Pat Brown, he would reconsider and run. But, added the host with the most, "my judgment will be the biggest factor in the final decision...