Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrate his first birthday (Nov. 25), the White House lifted the swaddling curtain for the first fullface portrait of John F. Kennedy Jr. since his christening, revealed that, although the picture shows him chomping on a toy rooster, a hand-me-down steam engine from Sister Caroline is actually his favorite possession. Other vital statistics cleared for release: weight-23 lbs.; height-30 in.; vocabulary-"Da-da, Mama and other noises...
...Brown dealt with a play that O'Neill drafted at the age of twenty-four and released when he was thirty-seven. The image of the playwright struggling over his work for years and ripping up manuscripts in dissatisfaction should be borne in mind by every writer who might toy with the illusion of easy success...
...give it just the kiss of the hops from Stein Song days, and the rest is a delectable kiss-off of all that nostalgic '20s razzmatazz. Frank Loesser's score does not entrance, but it does cleverly enhance the book, as in A Secretary Is Not a Toy ("Her pad is to write in, and not spend the night...
...Harvard to experiment in possible techniques. For example, six-year-olds cannot see several aspects of one phenomenon. They assume that one car is going faster than another because it reaches a goal first. It may really have started closer to the target, and Psychologist Inhelder will use toy cars to demonstrate. "There may be a rule that the exercise of a function leads to its further development," suggests Bruner...
Like any new toy, stereo at first appealed largely to only a narrow group. The early stereo owner was the status-conscious fellow in the neighborhood-he already had a Mercedes or didn't quite have the cash for one. In the wellappointed bachelor apartment, the stereo rig replaced the traditional etchings as a lure for the nubile. His costly equipment consisted of two speakers, two amplifiers, a special cartridge for his record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides...