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Word: unicorns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stirred the most controversy among readers was a short sermon by John Kenneth Galbraith on the need for restructuring at Harvard. ("The experience of Columbia is there for all to read.") More scandalous was a December 2 cover reproducing the Truc poster of a bare-assed lady milking a unicorn. (One reader suggested an apt place for the Harvard-Yale game scores.) Other articles have been about the international student movement and Dr. Timothy Leary. One issue included an almost complete reprint of the Wilson Report...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Alumni Bulletin | 5/15/1969 | See Source »

...guess this is what happens when you cross a unicorn with a leprechaun," said Councillor Edward A. Crane...

Author: By David N. Hollander, | Title: Law Professor Warns Poll Reply Could Be Used to Attack Students | 3/25/1969 | See Source »

...real swingers, even though Freeman will enjoy an annual entertainment allowance of $96,000. Disliking cocktail parties, he prefers dinners for a score of guests or fewer, a custom that will not devalue the cachet that Washington society has always attached to invitations embossed with the lion and unicorn of Britain. As a man who professes to enjoy most of all "lurking round the edges of politics," Ambassador Freeman is bound to find plenty of entertainment in Byzantium-on-the-Potomac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Ambassador Extraordinary | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...compliment to the mischievous skill of Iris Murdoch that her ten previous novels-notably Under the Net, The Unicorn and The Red and the Green-have kept critics guessing about the direction in which her talent might develop. The Nice and the Good may give them a sad clue, for the answer seems to be middle-age spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: By Love Possessed | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...idea of Lion & Unicorn was conceived by Lieut. Colonel V.A.J. (Villiers Archer John) Heald, 49, a onetime Scots Guardsman and wartime aide-de-camp to Dwight Eisenhower. Heald last year accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh on a U.S. tour to tout British goods. He heard complaints everywhere that Americans could never find suitable British products in their stores. Heald returned to London to round up partners and money, formed Lion & Unicorn as "an effective way to bring people together by trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Man from Lion & Unicorn | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

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