Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J.S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (charmin' fellahs) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...
...they leave it more valuable than when they started grazing on it. One ton of petroleum thus consumed produces about one ton of dry material that is half protein When fresh the stuff is white and tasteless, but as it ages it turns brown, smells like a new plastic toy and develops a delicately chemical flavor. Some samples according to French experimenters, taste like slightly rancid cheese...
...most popular toy in this store, as well, as at toystores in Cambridge, is a two-and a-half-foot item called Big Bruiser. Jordan Marsh had sold more than 100 in the last hour; seven were on the checkout counter at any particular moment. Big Bruiser is a battery-powered wrecker truck. It wrecks things...
...Merry Christmas!" say the neon statues on the Boston Common, the vigilant policemen in every toy department, the subliminal TV advertisments for Big Bruiser. Merry Christmas, every...
There are a few other blemishes, mostly in the matter of judgement. The extended burlesque of Bette Davis at the start of the play and the later use of a toy popgun are both funny of themselves, but they cheapen the play unnecessarily. When one is trying to operate at a high level, one ought to deny himself--no matter how reluctantly--even the best of a low level. Not that I would proscribe all comedy in this play; there is much, and most of it is appropriate. And while I should not temper one bit the venom and vitriol...