Word: curiosities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slow & Tough. Stans opposes the Administration's medical-care plan, its deficit budget, its tendency to "paternalism." He composes his thoughts on foolscap tablets at home among the African curios in his den or during long airplane flights.
One tribe practices the cult of the severed head. Young boys entering warrior-hood spend an initiation night in the men's communal hut cradling a freshly cut enemy head between their knees-a ceremony that requires a new crop of heads each time. The headhunters, photographed in the...
That the audience laughed at so much else on the program casts doubt on the seriousness of newer innovating composers. If they wish to be really listened to and considered musicians and not curios, they must eliminate from programs the laughable and eccentric works which confuse the evening's purpose...
Stories with Guts. Most school boards, even if they wanted McGuffey's Readers, would have supposed them out of print; the Twin Lakes men discovered that American Book Co. began to reprint them in the '20s to the order of Henry Ford, who regarded them as admirable curios...
Kicking off another busy week, Jacqueline Kennedy designated the nation's first curator of White House curios, also called on a woman with personal knowledge of the subject-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 88. The appointment of Mrs. John N. Pearce, 26, a Smithsonian Institution staffer, was announced from Palm Beach...