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Most parents regard TV's Sesame Street as a benevolent baby sitter, but Viewer Edward Hoagland, 43, has noticed something more. Animals, he suggests, are now an endangered species in the realm of make-believe. The Muppets are perky humanoids or cuddly monsters; Big Bird is barely the simulacrum of an ostrich. For that matter, Hoagland notes, Bugs Bunny was less obviously a member of the genus Lepus than were such precursors as Peter and Br'er Rabbit...
Kilbridge took over as acting dean in the fall of 1969, a Business School economist who had specialized in applying analytical techniques to urban problems. Kilbridge was not President Nathan M. Pusey's first choice to fill the position permanently; originally only a baby sitter, Kilbridge ascended to the permanent deanship after Pusey had received a round of "no, thank you's" from several more attractive candidates...
...French thus are supposed to devise substitutes for the ubiquitous anglicisms that comprise a good part of their everyday vocabulary: such non-bons mots as bestseller, sexy, blue jeans, bowling, gadget, checkup, checkout, jumbo jet, baby sitter, nonstop, dead heat (pronounced did it), hot dog, hijack, racket, zoom, jukebox, call girl, marketing, merchandising and leasing. Evidemment, the government will need un computer -preferred usage: ordinateur-to track down the offending business man, a designation that is not precisely conveyed by its closest French equivalent, l'homme d'affaires, and even less by la femme d'affaires...
Sifting through old papers in a Dutch astronomy laboratory, scientists came across an unexpected treasure: 17 letters and postcards written by Albert Einstein between 1916 and 1918 to his friend the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Willem de Sitter. The discovery, reported in Nature, reveals an esoteric interchange between the two men about the theory of relativity. Einstein's observations range from the specific (he computed the radius of the universe as R=10' lightyears) to the metaphoric ("I compare space to a cloth ...") to the peevish ("Your solution corresponds to no physical possibility"). But the two scholars...
Nevertheless, efforts to maintain the boycott are difficult for even the most intransigent white holdouts. Working parents, such as Janet and Steve Pickerell, are typical. Janet, a secretary, is away from home all day. Steve, a pipefitter, works nights, so he is baby-sitter and teacher for their son Mark, 7, during the day. Mrs. Pickerell is worried, however, because young Mark has little to do while his friends are in school. Says she: "I don't know how long we can hold out. He's bored to death. It's getting harder every...