Word: pores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tomes for tots are still dominated by the Art Director Look. What small children love best is plenty of handsomely presented visual detail, so that they can pore over a book again and again. What they keep getting is sweeping, uncluttered spreads in yummy pastels, or Neanderthal collages depicting, say, one mouse, two frogs and a lily pad, accompanied by perhaps seven fatuous words per page. Pleasant enough, but nothing in it to justify the price or keep the mind alive, even for a single rereading...
...result is easily the most stimulating atmosphere of any East-bloc country. But even Hungary is demoralized by the housing shortage that plagues all of Eastern Europe; 47% of the Hungarian population is crammed into one-room dwellings. Still, executive suites in Hungary hum with excitement as managers pore over computer printouts, circling moneymaking products in green, average earners in yellow, and losers in red. Collective farms operate small handcraft industries. Budapest's fashionable Váci Utca, now closed to auto traffic, is packed with shoppers who stroll past well-stocked jewelry shops, delicatessens, bookstores...
...strikes or bombing pauses. What she does convey eloquently are the fears and anxieties of a fiercely devoted wife, especially during the last two bleak years. In 1967 the Johnsons entered what she calls "the Valley of the Black Pig."*She was frankly alarmed by demonstrators: "Through every pore, you sense a sort of animal passion . . . What if I had suddenly broken into a run?" What she did, of course, was assume her "riding in the tumbrel" stance-shoulders square, head high, smile in place...
...something may soon be done about the root problem. Next week Senator Claiborne Pell's Education Subcommittee will hold hearings on a bill that would provide $10 million annually for environmental-including visual-education. During the hearings, the committee members (average age: 54) will be asked to pore over a book written expressly for 13-year-olds...