Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that vicious art of demolishing an opponent with reflex action, deadly patience and a featherweight celluloid ball, had its murky origins in the late 19th century. The game seems to have been invented by an American or an Englishman: it was originally promoted in Britain and the U.S. by toy and game companies, under the patented name Ping Pong. As a competitive sport, it has seldom been taken seriously in this country, and today it is usually relegated to suburban basements, where sons can wreak Oedipal vengeance on their panting middle-aged fathers...
Dressed up as American and Vietnamese combatants, about 40 VVAW members staged "search-and-destroy missions" and "prisoner interrogations" throughout the morning on the Plaza. Periodically, the "Americans" charged the subway station and yelling "Kill the Gooks!" fired their toy machine guns point-blank at people emerging from the station...
Fahlstrom's work has always been pervaded by a cold, lurid sense of breakdown-pleasure and nausea, fragmentation, calamity. Underneath it, the artist's political stance has firmed and grown more explicit. No matter how one may shove around the toy images of rockets, dollar signs and hardhats in Pentagon Diptych (1970), they still propose a visual indictment of bigotry and militarism...
...student's first language activity in Moffett's curriculum is non-verbal dramatic action. The child "limbers" his body and expresses free associations of feelings and impulses in solitary play with toys and in movement to music. Pantomime, substituting the stimulation of an idea for music or a toy, is the first mode in which a student attempts to converse with another. After choral pantomime Moffett proposes organizing students in small groups, six or less in each, to enact short scenes from stories for their own group and eventually for the whole class. Verbal dramatic activity naturally evolves as students...
...copies of the book, surrounded by American toy soldiers and a shiny red helicopter from Woolworth's, are now on display in the Harvard University Press arcade in Holyoke Center...