Word: rumpelstiltskin
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...Government's cotton policy is a crazy quilt that would put even Rumpelstiltskin in stitches-and it costs the U.S. taxpayer $500 million a year. Congress has piled subsidy on top of subsidy, seems to think up a new price prop every year...
Saturday, January 19 Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). This week this excellent children's program has everything from a Finnish gymnastics team to a short history of American railroads, but particularly a reading of Rumpelstiltskin by Peter Ustinov...
...Soviet Union for some two hours on TV's Open End (recognizing that he was overmatched, Susskind had asked Khrushchev if he would meet with a panel of experts, but K. refused). It could not have been a more incongruous interview-or a more fascinating sideshow-if Rumpelstiltskin had been interrogating Jimmy Hoffa, and about as much useful information resulted...
Rigged quizzes are nothing new-they have been going on ever since Rumpelstiltskin. The only one who came to any harm was Rumpelstiltskin himself, who had posed the question to the queen: "If you find out my name, then you shall keep your child." Her messenger gave the queen the answer, and Rumpelstiltskin tore himself in two-everybody else lived happily ever after. There must be a moral in that somewhere...
...linguist and etymologist, I do sympathize with the editors of America in their outcry against the corruption of the English language by the advertising agencies [TIME, Jan. 24]. I feel, though, that Father Davis has overlooked the deeper meaning of the old fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin and the old rule that "the baby has to have a name." The excesses of the advertisers are merely proof that the Biblical injunction to Adam that he give names to the things of the earth is getting harder every...