Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief casualty of the new labels is that old standby, the rabbit, which for years has traveled under a host of now illegal pseudonyms. Among them: Arctic seal, Baltic leopard, Belgium beaver, bluerette, castorette, chinchillette, erminette, French sable, Galland squirrel, marmotine, minkony, moline, nutriette and twin beaver. Maximum penalty for mislabeling: $5,000 fine and a year in jail...
Westinghouse Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Maria Riva in The Rabbit...
...Producer Bunin plays hob with the facts to picture the children's tale as a virtual allegory of the author's difficulties. To point up a tenuous parallel, he not only rigs the prologue but also changes such characters as the King of Hearts and the White Rabbit, who becomes a comic villain...
Sometimes the message comes from a waddling polar bear, sometimes from a skating penguin, a magic rabbit or a talking dog. Sometimes it comes in a display of hurtling rockets, spinning alphabets or galaxies of exploding stars. If the pitch is entrusted to a human, there is always the smile - broad, ecstatic, spreading from one side of the screen to the other as it expresses satisfaction over a cigarette, a glass of beer, a bright new refrigerator...
...away from evil or denied its existence. He fought evil in his own way, which was essentially to suffer rather than to inflict suffering, to die by the sword rather than to kill with the sword. Gandhi did not believe in unresisting meekness but in non-violent resistance ("A rabbit that runs away from the bull terrier is not particularly nonviolent...