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...Chao '72 of Mather House has won his choice of one dozen lollipops, a purple crayon or a pink pen in the CRIMSON children's book quiz. He answered 631/3 out of 75, plus getting the bonus question. Honorable mention also goes to the Welsh Triad (the Owl, the Unicorn and the Griffin) and to Miss Jansson's fifth grade class at the Summer St. School, Lynnfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trivia Answers The Butler was Bannister and the Grinch Stole Christmas | 11/25/1970 | See Source »

...fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field." Clearly, this indicates that inventing names was to be an important function of his race. Contemporary Adam, confronting the menagerie of his own political attitudes, says: "This one is a gryphon. That one is a unicorn." Or, like Spiro Agnew, he invents hybridized contradictions: "That one is a gryphon unicorn." Lexicographically speaking, this Eden is hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: POLITICS AND THE NAME GAME | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...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 »

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