Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take Footsee, the newest craze with the playground set. The toy consists of a plastic ankle ring to which is attached a 30-in. string with a bell-shaped weight at the other end. The object is to twirl the string with one foot and hop with the other; well-coordinated youngsters can now twirl three Footsees at once-one on each leg and one on an arm. In the first three months on the U.S. market, about 4,000,000 of the $1.29 toys have been sold. The reason cannot be novelty: a similar toy enjoyed brief popularity four...
...sales of the conventional model. Latest of Wham-O's line is the Whirlee Twirlee. Something new? Not if you remember the way vaudeville jugglers used to spin plates at the end of a stick. In fact the company had some success with an earlier version. But the toy has not been around for almost nine years, and that for fads is approximately a millennium...
...scene, reminiscent of Richardson's Tom Jones, Cardigan (Trevor Howard) and his lady (Jill Bennett) rush to get undressed. She races ahead-then turns back to help him put of his girdle. And the charge itself is almost entirely successful. The rigid troops move forward like wind-up toy soldiers, under the hypnotic spell of unquestioned tradition. The firing begins; the hoofs and bodies and blood combine. Screams and guns seem to reach beyond the screen. The hysteria and terror are as palpable as dust; the slaughter is a testament to the inanity of blind obedience. By itself...
Playful Aggression. The move toward toy disarmament has gained an ally in Dr. Spock. In his revised edition of Baby and Child Care, published last July, Spock writes: "We should bring up the next generation of Americans with a greater respect for law and for other people's rights and sensibilities. One simple opportunity we could utilize in the first half of childhood is to show our disapproval of lawlessness and violence in television programs and in children's pistol play...
...releasing aggression. Moreover, points out Dr. Sirgay Sanger, child psychiatrist at Manhattan's Payne Whitney Clinic: "Forbiddance only leads to fascination." Thus, total disarmament is probably unattainable. While there is a piece of wood handy and a boy to shout "Bang, bang, you're dead!," toy guns are likely to remain a part of childhood...