Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy expert to tell that our country's energy programs are off the track. Not only are trains like the Southern Crescent a joy to travel in but they are energy efficient. Instead of retiring the Crescent and her sister trains, the ICC might (perish the thought) cooperate with the Department of Energy and develop some incentives: ride instead of drive...
...schoolchildren in Green Cove Springs. Aghast officials called in a trapper after learning that the kids were serving up poodles and other neighborhood pets to their friend as snacks. Says Wildlife Biologist Tommy Hines: "He was not afraid of anybody. Every time somebody came up to him, he thought it was time for dinner...
...respondents proved to be remarkably honest: less than 1% broke the rules by filing more than one application. Among them was a man in Fresno, Calif., who apparently thought he was entering a contest. He bought 125 newspapers, completed the forms and mailed them all in. When the refund checks went out, one was sent to him-for $6.30, far less than what he had paid for the newspapers...
...wall-to-wall TV. Teachers find O'Callahan not only stirs total attention, but inspires students to read. As Newton P.T.A. Officer Jessica Davis puts it, "It is extraordinary to see a storyteller with the tools of an art centuries old captivate a group of children who thought they'd seen everything...
...also gives Westermann's pieces a typically hermetic and defensive look: protected by their glass enclosures and crates, armed with hooks, hasps, locks and hinges, they take their stand as small fortresses of care and responsibility against an inimical world of non-art-ratty execution, sloppy thought. This point is neatly made by A Close Call, 1965. Inside the box, a wooden doll with an ermine's head reels backward to avoid a dagger that has penetrated the glass ceiling...