Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 700 stores in Britain) acquired Fortnum's in 1951, emphasis has shifted away from foods. Britain's bowler-hat and mink-coat contingent can now shop at Fortnum's for women's wear, men's clothing, leather goods, linens, even TV sets. A toy department offers miniature Rolls-Royces and hand-carved rocking horses. The gifts department has a $190 crystal champagne bucket and a $700 crocodile-skin desk set. There is also an antique department in which almost nothing is less than $1,000, and a boutique with the latest designs...
...acquired none of the signs of soprano temperament, is instead almost girlishly exuberant about her new career. Her dressing room is crowded with "furry little toy animals," and like a teen-ager after the senior prom, she brings home all her curtain-call flowers and heaps them in the bathtub until she can arrange them around the house. To get to Covent Garden she takes a half hour ride on the tube, studying her role en route. "I memorize beautifully when there is noise around," she says. There promises to be a lot of noise about Gwyneth Jones for some...
Many so-called educational toys are mediocre gadgets whose makers hope to cash in on the wave of interest in early childhood education. Others-typically scale models-are too detailed, or "structured," in the lingo of child psychologists, which cramps a young child's imagination. "Parents who succumb to the charms of these toys are fulfilling their own frustrated needs," says Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner. Another kind of toy is truly educational but hardly new. Psychologists call them "miniature people" and say that children need them "to recreate the world around them." That's the hard...
...signed on as an illustrator for the National Police Gazette. To his delight, one day he was assigned to sketch the circus. Barnum & Bailey was so pleased that it gave him a free entrance pass. He followed the American artists' trail to Paris, where he made his own toy circus in which he sat performing like some child Gargantua for such luminaries as Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, and Jean Cocteau...
...prologue to an earlier Marlowe play, The Jew of Malta, the playwright declared: I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Faustus holds the same views, but this time the play moves in exactly the opposite direction. Here religion is a dominion of implacable law reducing man and his will to a broken toy; and it is knowledge that is tainted with evil. Through Satan's agent Mephistophilis (James Ray), the learned Dr. Faustus (Lou Antonio) makes a pact with the Devil. He wills his soul to eternal damnation for 24 years...