Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peter Green, who turned a standard deck into a riffle of 54 political caricatures (including the two obvious jokers, William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer). All the black cards are Republicans, the reds Democrats. Deuce of spades is Little David Eisenhower in a sailor suit, clutching a toy boat. Tricia Nixon Cox, the four of spades, is a Playboy Bunny. Eugene McCarthy, the three of hearts, is Hamlet meditating upon a skull. A constabulary George Wallace is rated the jack of diamonds. The cards have been popular enough to go into their third edition, but they obviously need some...
...contains two poems reprinted from the April 1969 Harvard Advocate. The poems, "Henry's Understanding" and "Henry by Night," were offshoots of Berryman's longest poem, Dream Songs. The first volume of that work, 77 Dream Songs, won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and its second volume, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, won the 1969 National Book Award...
...lags behind is the fact that Soviet technicians who helped build the plant left the country in 1960, and have not been replaced. "The Russians offered us only reverse aid," says Liang Wen-chan, a member of the factory's Revolutionary Committee. "They said we could only make toy cars here, and they took their plans with them when they left...
...which caused his whole face-minus the tip of his nose-to turn yellow. Albert frightened off a violin teacher by throwing a chair at her, hurled a bowling ball at his sister, and in one fit of rage tried to "knock a hole" in her head with a toy trowel. "It is doubtless evident," wrote the harried Maja, "that a healthy skull is a necessity for the sister of a thinker...
...good clean form of fun, instead of pills or dope. You know, you can get high on your car." "Here," says Ben Carco, an American Motors dealer in Reseda, "your car is part of you." There are Angelenos who, like those old ladies with toy poodles, bristle when told that they have to leave their cars outside, which accounts for the popularity in Los Angeles of drive-in banks, drive-in churches (with speakers and heaters for every car) and Jack-In-The-Box restaurants at which you merely pause, still in "drive," give your order to a polite machine...