Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yalta to Yippies. Frederick Crews, 35, professor of English at Berkeley and author of such disparate books as The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes and the fluffy satire The Pooh Perplex, coaxes a respectable number of chuckles out of America's national preoccupation with youth. The Patch Commission, "a complete, uncensored transcript of the first day's proceedings of the Presidential Emergency Commission on Child Governance Priorities," describes an attempt by its three panel members to outline a "Realpediatrik" with which to save the nation from disaster...
Reagan retreated behind his noncandidate's cloak, denied any connection with the $300,000 television drive waged on his behalf in Oregon. Rockefeller pooh-poohed Oregon's importance while seeking delegate support in Denver, Albuquerque, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. With increasing edginess, New York's Governor questioned both Nixon's ability to win in the general election and to be a successful President even...
...pressure on the U.S. to halt its air raids against the North. "They wouldn't have come," said he, "unless they had expected more than propaganda out of this exercise." Accordingly, Harriman proposed that both sides get down to substantive and secret discussions. For the present, Hanoi has pooh-poohed the suggestion. Nevertheless, U.S. diplomats expect Hanoi to realize eventually that its propaganda tactics will bring diminishing returns-and at that point will begin to negotiate in earnest...
Plans to Stay Out. Humphrey pooh-poohed the results, saying that they would have been "a little different" if he had been an active contender. No doubt. But Humphrey is directly involved in none of the forthcoming primaries, and the "unauthorized" Nebraska write-in campaign on his behalf clearly bombed. Humphrey visited Nebraska four days before the primary, seemingly inviting votes. Now he plans to stay out of Oregon, California and South Dakota until those primaries are over. McCarthy, who is on the ballot against Kennedy in the three remaining contests, vows to fight it out, spurning the New Yorker...
...practically everyone; he sprang Mickey Spillane on the world (seven biggest sellers: 34.6 million copies), published Mountain Climber Maurice Herzog's classic Annapurna, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, and Evgeny Evtushenko's Selected Poems. His great friend was A. A. Milne, whose whimsical Winnie-the-Pooh sold more than 1,000,000 copies and appeared in a dozen languages-including a pirated Russian translation (Vinni-Pukh i vse-vse-vse), which Macrae happily pirated right back last year and printed for publication...