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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Late Late Pumpkin. Two longer fables are also memorable. The first is a Cinderella-and-tonic tale called Passionella, in which a forlorn chimney sweep named Ella sits by the TV set one night when her "friendly neighborhood godmother" turns her into Passionella, a gorgeous movie queen. But the spell works each day only between the first commercial of Huckleberry Hound and the last blab of the Late Late Show. The other playlet, George's Moon, is an astringent parable of faith, hope and hostility. George is a worried little man who lives alone on the moon, counting craters...
Revolt Against Tyranny. These intimations of action, plus intensified national concern about the cold war and continuing reverberations of the Cuba disaster, combined to stir intense new interest in a long-debated issue of international law and international morality: the rights and wrongs of "intervention." Heard again, after a spell of hibernation, was the view that intervention in all cases is wrong on principle-a dangerous doctrine that could weaken the West in its struggle against Communism. Floating around the U.S. last week were "open letters" signed by 250 faculty members from 40-odd U.S. colleges and universities, ranging from...
...America when he was four, eventually settled in the "little Italy" district of Cleveland. While his father peddled junk, young William peddled newspapers, quit school at 13, became an apprentice lithographer. He saved his money, got to New York and finally to Paris, where he fell under the spell of the Fauvists (the Wild Beasts) and the cubists. He placed a painting in New York's history-making 1913 Armory Show ("We were modern, wildly modern"), but he quickly came to realize that his brand of cubism was derivative. One day he picked up a panel of butternut wood...
...could break open the meet is the Crimson's Tom Blodgett. Although Bulldogs Bill Flippin and Jay Luck are favored in the high and low hurdles, Blodgett could win both races. He could take the broad jump as easily as not, and his spell over Eli pole vaulter Oakley Andrews might start working again...
...used special jigsaw puzzles. To strengthen muscles for early writing, they traced complex metal plates that also introduced formal geometrical shapes. To practice the alphabet, one tot used big cards with the letters pasted on in sandpaper that he could feel. Four-year-olds used cut-out letters to spell the names of animals in pictures; many wrote the names, and several five-year-olds sat quietly reading books to themselves...