Word: winsor
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Trudeau is also in debt to Jules Feiffer's skeletal style and balloonless neurotic monologues. But the cartoonist Trudeau most admires is a past master, the long-neglected Winsor McCay, whose Little Nemo in Slumberland appeared in the New York Herald 70 years ago. Nemo, a boy who wandered each night in surreal dreamscapes, was an enchanting champion of childhood fantasy. Though Trudeau cannot approach McCay's technique, he still retains the ability to see things through young eyes. "A flight of fantasy," he writes in his preface to the Chronicles, "is no mere sleight of mind...
Kaptelov requested from Schlesinger photocopies of parts of the manuscript collections of Vera Dean, Louise Stroughton, Mary Winsor and Eliza Bowditch van Loon, all of whom were American women who had travelled to or had special interest in Russia. The Schlesinger Library does not hold literary rights for several of the collections in question...
Roswitha M. Winsor, co-chairman of Committee for a Sane Drug Policy, said yesterday that while the bill would substantially loosen marijuana laws, it is still "in some ways ridiculously conservative...
Even if Massachusetts laws were relaxed, Federal laws would still apply, Winsor said. But she expressed hope that Federal investigators would continue "to have better things to do than pursue marijuana users...
...Winsor said she thinks the bill stands only a small chance of passage in this, a non-election year. She expressed fears that next year legislators will be afraid to vote for marijuana reform...