Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite the perennial popularity of Sherlock Holmes, dripping shag tobacco from his well-blackened clay pipe; despite the graceful pipemanship of Bing Crosby; even despite the theories of Freud about what pipe smoking really means-pipe smoking is on the decline...
...Silver Blaze, one of Sherlock Holmes's cases, a highly important clue is the fact that on a significant occasion a dog did not bark. Similarly, one of the most revealing facts about the U.S. in 1962 is that protectionists-advocates of high protective tariffs-are doing remarkably little barking at a time when they ought to be baying fiercely. President Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act, now being worked over by the House Ways and Means Committee, pushes far beyond the old reciprocal trade program. It would empower the President to slash U.S. tariffs by 50% or more...
...Irish jig. Art is the finest form of fun so long as it is not overburdened by a "message." Americans must learn to relax and surrender to contemplation, which is "almost like falling in love." When they have exhausted the pleasure of comic books, they will automatically graduate to Sherlock Holmes, then to Shakespeare, without having to ponder whether it has all been worthwhile...
...railroad. Royboy revived the moribund railroaders' trade union and became its leader. He then set out on a self-education program, broke railroad rules on his trips by turning the throttle over to the fireman; by the light of the firebox, he devoured books from Karl Marx to Sherlock Holmes...
Generations of Britons have made a hobby of Bradshaw, the defunct, encyclo pedic railway guide that Sherlock Holmes knew by heart. A fervent Brad shaw buff's severest censure of a fellow devotee: "He is rather weak on his Sun day locals." Nonetheless, Beeching last week was going ahead with a 1 5-year, $4.2 billion cost cutting program. "Railways," sighed a British Transport Commission official, "will never be the same again...