Word: robin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upstairs den at Shuster's house lined with learned tomes, as befits two scholars holding bachelor's degrees in English literature. Says Shuster: "In a Julius Caesar scene, we try to do it so no classics professor would quarrel with it." They have also spoofed Mother Goose, Robin Hood, Les Miserables, and kidded the stirrups off "adult" westerns in a skit titled: "The Frontier Psychiatrist . . . dedicated to the brave men who brought mental health to the West...
...William G. Carr, executive secretary of the National Education Association, came a reminder to fellow educators that "not all our critics are our enemies." Obvious although unnamed targets of his remarks: two officials of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals (an NEA affiliate) who sent a round-robin letter to 16,500 high school principals recently, suggesting a boycott of TIME and LIFE (TIME, April 21). Observed Carr pointedly: "Some adverse comments about our schools are justified. In such cases, the appropriate reaction is not fear or anger, but rather prompt and remedial action...
...small egg, duck egg, goose egg, guinea egg, robin's egg, pigeon egg, quail egg, small pullet's egg, banty egg; walnut, English walnut, hulled walnut, hull of walnut, pecan acorn, unhulled walnut; grain of corn, few grains of maize, bean, navy bean, pea, lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist...
Baldly told, without regard to Author Cicellis' luminous sensibility and genuine compassion. Ten Seconds from Now could seem as world-wearily neurasthenic as Françoise Sagan's round-robin tournaments of amour. Dominique loves Nondas who has eyes only for Erne. Diki is engaged to Vangos but pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia. Monarches loves his wife Julia who leaves him for a nameless lover for whom she has waited for 15 years. Danae loves Simos who is too poor to offer marriage but can pay for an abortion. Sentimental Vivi is perhaps poorest...
...Robin Hood Fallacy. How to get away from this situation, which might be called the Robin Hood fallacy? K. & A.'s solution does not lie in cutting up larger slices of an ever-larger "economic pie." Instead, "the task of a truly capitalistic society is to broaden the ownership of the pie-making machinery and to build a vast number of new pie-making machines that will be owned by people who do not now own such machines...