Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As Christmas toy buying started with a rush last week, retailers predicted that 1959 will be the most successful year in the history of the U.S. toy industry. Total retail sales will reach $1,650,000,000, an 18% increase over 1958. Not only are toymakers selling more, but the...
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by Stefan Lorant (640 pp.; Doubleday; $15), will seem as essential to admirers of Teddy Roosevelt as Lorant's Lincoln is to worshipers of Honest Abe. The text is painstaking rather than incisive, but the 750 pictures have the cumulative effect of...
THE SQUARE, by Marguerite Duras (118 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; papperback, $1.45). A nursemaid meets a man in a village square; they talk, while the child plays, of how it is possible to go on living. The man travels about selling five-and-dime notions from a suitcase. He is...
As it gets progressively unzippered emotionally, The Caretakers also goes melodramatically berserk. One patient chokes to death in neglect, one attendant is strangled by an inmate, and a lecherous doctor who impregnates a nymphomaniac patient has his skull crushed by the woman's husband. Such aphrodisiac antics strongly suggest...
Third Man on the Mountain. Walt Disney's cliff hanger for the kids, who will probably believe that rock climbing is the spectacular cinch it seems to be in this film, and will certainly enjoy the entirely fictional story about a boy who showed the grownups how to climb...