Word: robins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are some truths that even a strong man should not have to bear, and one of them may be the fact that Christopher Robin's mother always wanted a baby girl named Rosemary, not a boy at all. For nine years she dressed Winnie-the-Pooh's young master in girl's clothes and left his hair long. "I remained a boy," Christopher Robin now confesses. "But only just. I was one of her few failures...
Christopher Robin, of course, is Christopher Milne, who today confronts the world as a shy, bespectacled, 54-year-old bookshop owner and amateur carpenter from the British provinces. If his life has not exactly been blasted by Pooh and Mummy, it has had its melancholy moments, and with both parents now dead, he has written a book. This is the age of dreadful domestic disclosure (Elliott Roosevelt nipping at Eleanor in the guise of historian; Nigel Nicolson vicariously reveling in the vagaries of V. Sackville-West). A friend of Pooh therefore at first approaches Enchanted Places the way Piglet crept...
...distinctions might have appeared to be unimportant. If, for instance, security patrol members were working long hours, it must not have seemed wrong for them to pay themselves appropriately even it meant cutting corners a little. If Robin Schmidt's advice would have helped Bok, it must have seemed unimportant whether that advice dealt, with matters of substance or purely of style and appearance...
...Shirkola Forest on the south shore of the Caspian Sea in Iran, the oak trees are as thick as the ones in old Errol Flynn Robin Hood movies, according to Richard G. Leahy, and he adds proudly, "There are still leopards there...
...grown into the habit of attributing his lack of visibility to the size and structure of the University, something that could not be changed. But confidential memoranda from Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, and Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for public affairs, painted a different picture...