Word: playroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain reputation as a classy middleweight boxer at the University of Virginia ('37). In later years Caplin's reputation was built on his record as a teacher (former pupils: Bobby and Ted Kennedy), authority on taxation and corporate law, and civic leader; he turned his Charlottesville basement playroom into an emergency classroom for schoolchildren during the "massive resistance" period in 1958, when Virginia closed its public schools. Long a proponent of tax reform, Caplin favors cutting upper-bracket income taxes to 65%, lower-bracket taxes...
...rest of the world. They even had a private language, examples of which are merci lessly given. It is all very charming at first, but less so when Decca and Boud (big, "sullen," "baleful" Unity) get past the hair-pulling stage and make the big world their playroom. Boud took to scratching swastikas on the window (she had a diamond, of course), and Decca just naturally scratched hammer-and-sickles over them...