Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evolution took place: instead of the great herds of hoofed animals that developed on other continents, Australia produced kangaroos and wallabies; in place of squirrels there are platypuses and phalangers. The wombat is Australia's equivalent of the badger, and predatory beasts are represented by the Tasmanian wolf, a doglike marsupial...
...over th-there," answers a female bank teller who looks the way Red Riding Hood looked when Grandma turned out to be the Big Bad Wolf...
Cramer has been perfecting his present system for a year. He first became interested in human communication back in 1960, during a political controversy in his home town. "If a politician stood up at a bridge meeting and cried 'Wolf!' it was amazing to see how quickly the public responded, while they reacted hardly at all to authoritative information on the printed page," Cramer observed. He concluded that auditory information was far more effective than written...
...Wolf who keeps the Voice from galloping off in support of the many causes that are constantly boiling up in the Village. "I carry fewer certainties than other people," he says. His paper often runs stories that take different sides of the same issue. It was no surprise that the Voice recently carried an article praising the New York World Journal Tribune and then one panning it -or that both of them were convincing...
Back in 1956, Wolf's tolerant eclecticism was challenged by one of the paper's founders, Norman Mailer, who thought the Voice was becoming too square. Mailer also suspected that Wolf was using typos to sabotage his column defending the hip way of life. When his phrase "nuances of growth" came out "nuisances of growth," Mailer quit the paper in a rage. The Voice's coverage of big local stories is often more balanced and thoughtful than the reporting in the dailies. The paper's criticism of the arts is also a match for the other...