Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complications from burns suffered last month in a bathtub; in New York City. A protean penman, Robinson's nonfiction ranged from Private Virtue, Public Good, an anti-Rooseveltian treatise later reprinted in 1,000,000 copies after it appeared as a Digest article in 1938, to A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, an exercise in academic detection...
...more mechanically minded, do-it-yourself dinosaur construction kits are on sale. These kits provide a mass of miniature plastic Tyrannosaurus Rex bones from which the prospective paleontologist can construct his own small scale dinosaur skeleton...
...Shek has never been known to be red hot for civil liberties and that sort of thing. He is, if only by virtue of his friendliness (or perhaps dependence), a pleasant alternative to Mao TseTung, but the internal affairs of the island of Formosa have occasionally become an embarrassing skeleton in the United States' diplomatic closet...
This week the Chinese skeleton is rattling for all it is worth. A Taipei publisher named Lei Chen made the mistake last summer of starting an opposition party--something that is not done in America's rather tarnished bastion of democracy in the Far East. On September 4, Chang's men arrested Lei on charges of sedition, much to the dismay of Nationalist intellectuals at home and overseas. Now the trial, originally scheduled for October 15, is being pushed through this week, and no one has any serious doubts as to its outcome...
...narrator, a knockabout literary sort named Lawrence Lucifer, gloats over sex, happily flexes his ability to shock ("I am afraid to shake hands with him, for fear that the skin will slip the bony structure of the hand and come away. It would take so little to produce the skeleton from this debile bundle of meat...