Word: wee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost twenty years of field study and interviews of gnomes by author Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet. Gnomes is written in the manner of an Audubon book about a newly-discovered bird species, and it describes in detail the physiology, folkways, legends, industries and daily routines of the wee folk. Although the book concentrates mostly on the red-capped woodland variety of gnome, other gnome species, like the barn, dune, and Siberian gnomes, find their way into the text...
...Tolkien and his hobbit horde seem to have preempted the field? Ignoring possible monetary reasons, it seems Huygen is trying to tell us something here. By attributing to gnomes a host of qualities he sees as lacking in human beings, like peacefulness and non-competitiveness, Huygen is holding the wee folk up to us as a moral example...
Cruel? Crude? Even a wee bit sexist? You bet pal, but it's not my fault--I'm just your typical cosmopolitan shopper, aged 20-to-35, M.C. Escher on my closet door and cross-country skis within. I breakfast at the Greenhouse Coffee House, brunch at 33-D, and eat out whenever I can. I'm as relevant as Passim's and as exotic as the Coffeee Connection...
...glass of raw blood every day, a plate of calves' brains washed down with a beer thrice weekly, and you will grow strong and smart. So predicts David Ogilvy's Scotsman father in 1917, when the future advertising genius is a wee tyke of six. Dad speaks sooth. Young David finesses his way into Oxford, drinks, and flunks out cheerfully after two years. A charmer, this youth, right out of Fielding. By now the reader is hooked, and Ogilvy never lets...
...Dodgers in 1938, MacPhail made a series of transactions that would in the present era probably have incurred the wrath of Kuhn. Back in '38, MacPhail put $50,000 down on the trading block to buy first baseman Dolph Camilli from the Phillies. MacPhail also purchased Pee Wee Reese from the Red Sox and along the way acquired the likes of Joe Medwick, Whitlow Wyatt and Mickey Owen...