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...ROTTEN BOOK, by Mary Rodgers, illustrated by Steven Kellogg (Harper & Row; $2.50). At breakfast one morning, in between telling Simon to eat his egg, his parents are discussing a little boy who is "rotten, absolutely rotten." And Simon begins to imagine all the things he would do if he were rotten. The detailed pencil drawings show him racing through a supermarket, cutting off his sister's hair and finally going to jail. The text by musical writer Mary Rodgers (Once Upon a Mattress) is deadpan funny...
...buttons, or the fact that because of people like me they were standing out there in the cold morning drizzle directing traffic. They smiled back and said "hi" back. And the marshals, freezing all along the route, were good people. Almost all the people were good ones, not rotten apples. But there were lots of not-so-good people sleeping, "ignoring" this childish demonstration...
...thinking about my quiet companion. When Tinsley got out of bed on whatever day it happened, did he think that he might he might be killed before he might sleep again? Did it happen quickly or did he have time to lie there and think how rotten it all was? Was it a hand grenade, a shelling, a bullet, a knife? What put Tinsley around my neck...
...audiences are suggestible to his appeals to a "Love It or Leave It" America. In Harrisburg. Pa., two weeks ago. Agnew attacked the more militant dissidents as "vultures" and declared: "We can afford to separate them from our society with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel." What did he mean by separation? Expulsion? Concentration camps...
Equally unsettling was the Vice President's attack on the more militant dissident leaders. Describing them as "parasites of passion," "merchants of hate" and "vultures," Agnew said: "We can afford to separate them from our society with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel." He did not specify how this purge would be accomplished...