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...original furnishings are on display -including John Kennedy's bassinet, the silver bowl and spoon he used as a child, and two of the favorite books of his boyhood: King Arthur and His Knights and Billy Whiskers, the story of a goat. There is also a toy train of the period, presented by the Museum of the City of New York...
Repeated Taunts. Although the blacks number only 250 students out of Cornell's enrollment of 13,500, they responded with relentless agitation and tactical skill. Last December seven Negroes rampaged through the administration building, where they brandished toy pistols and overturned vending machines. The demonstrators were immediately called before a student-faculty disciplinary committee. But they refused to appear on the ground that Cornell could hardly act as an impartial judge of "political action" against the university itself. When the committee threatened to suspend the six unless they showed up, the blacks turned the tables-they cited an obscure...
...stand, becomes "sculpture." A chamber pot leaves its place under the bed and appears-lo!-as a soup tureen. Fortunate is the man who inherits a 1912 Corona typewriter or an Atwater-Kent radio in plywood Gothic style. They are also lucky who have-squirreled away somewhere-cast-iron toys, lead molds, bubble-gum machines, wind-up phonographs, toy steam engines, pieces of farm machinery, embossed advertisements-in fact, any of the detritus of industrialism. It is wanted...
...antipathy toward the Czar. In Lermontov's life, too, the political acts are highlighted: his eulogy to Pushkin at Pushkin's funeral (based on the real Lermontov's poem), dangerous because Pushkin is out of favor with the court, and his appearance at military inspection once with a toy sword. The husband of his mistress is the head of the court police, and his rival for the younger woman is the police chief's assistant. Thus, as with Pushkin, the court is his oppressor in his personal as well as political life, and can use the one as excuse...
...such test, the young subject is held in his mother's lap within reach of a puzzle box. Behind a sliding transparent panel, a toy is placed to snare the subject's attention. To collect this fascinating prize, the baby must hold the panel open while plundering the box of its contents. Bruner's youngest subjects -under one year-typically reach for the toy with one hand, encounter the transparent obstacle and bang on it or give up, either in slumber, indifference or tears. Older babies may manage to slide the panel up with one hand, then...