Word: simpsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alan Simpson, newly appointed successor to Sarah Blanding as president of Vassar College, once visited the San Diego Zoo. He was amused and distressed to find a sign reading "Don't feed the gibbons. They have a high susceptibility to dietary upsets." Simpson protested, "That sign ought to read, 'Don't feed the gibbons. It makes them sick.'" The flustered zoo people reworded their sign; they also gave Simpson a complimentary subscription to the Zoo News. What's more, he conscientiously read...
...encounters that rare species, the Vassar girl, Alan Simpson will no doubt remain a witty, candid and ingratiating foe of highfalutin humbug in language or learning. Not that he equates the straightforward with the rough-and-ready. British-born and an Oxford graduate, he joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1946 as a newly demobbed Royal Artillery major and rose to become dean of the college. "On coming to the United States," Simpson recalls, "I was struck by the style in clothes, cars, and homes, but unfortunately the American mind chugs along like a Model T - persevering and rugged...
...Chicago the Simpson style has been to balance the traditional with the experimental, by reinforcing the full curriculum of studies, yet retaining the Robert Hutchins legacy of free-ranging intellectual inquiry. The study balance he regards as admirable is the English style of undisturbed reflection capped by rigorous exams - "a bracing combination of sauntering and sprinting...
Almost everything but the mannequins themselves seemed to have come off a ranch. Ponyskin and calf were favorites. Designer John Weitz cut a pair of pants out of saddle leather, lined a coat of the same fabric with a horse blanket. Adele Simpson put some of her models in outfits with matching boots, either knee-or ankle-height, all high-heeled. No one did anything with an armadillo...
Just after dusk, a motorist found Moore lying at the side of the road, still wearing a sign reading: "Equal Rights for All." His civil rights crusade was over, he had been shot twice with a .22 caliber rifle. Floyd Simpson was arrested a few days later and, on evidence that the police have not yet disclosed, charged with first-degree murder...