Word: blankets
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...being a campus phenomenon in the late 1950s to a mainstream cultural powerhouse. Throughout the '60s and early '70s, the visual and verbal vocabulary of the strip was one of the only languages that kept both the younger and older generation fluent with each other. Schulz's phrase "security blanket," and his ideas about that most American of concepts, happiness, found their way into Webster's dictionary and "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations." The names and subversive attributes of his characters filtered into the counterculture of the '60s; the Grateful Dead's defiantly grubby organist, Ron McKernan, was nicknamed...
...they say at Disney, Development Heck) before its title was changed from Kingdom of the Sun, its scope narrowed from spectacle to intimacy, its tone altered from the dramatic to the brashly comic and all but one of its songs scrapped. There were other ominous signs: Disney didn't blanket the TV air with commercials; and Spade, in a recent visit with Jay Leno, was loath to mention his new movie. All of which meant, in the end, nothing; the film is a funny, breezy romp...
...been printed by mistake. You wrote about an air-conditioning system to cool dogs left in a hot car. But my invention has the opposite goal: to keep dogs warm. I own dachshunds, and they used to shiver at night from the cold weather. They couldn't keep a blanket on, so I developed the ultimate snuggle bed, which is sort of like a sleeping bag with a built-in pillow and blanket. People who buy these beds say their dogs love them! Readers can find out more about them at our website, www.chillydogs.com JO WIDNESS Ashland...
...they say at Disney, Development Heck) before its title was changed from "Kingdom of the Sun," its scope narrowed from spectacle to intimacy, its tone altered from the dramatic to the brashly comic and all but one of its songs scrapped. There were other ominous signs: Disney didn't blanket the TV air with commercials; and Spade, in a recent visit with Jay Leno, was loath to mention his new movie. All of which meant, in the end, nothing; the film is a funny, breezy romp. Emperor Kuzco (very much like the sarcastic brat Spade plays on "Just Shoot...
There is an important story here, about the de-Christianization of the modern university and the suffocating blanket of secular sneering that has settled over Ivy League campuses in the last half-century. But as the days grow short, and Christmas inches closer, it occurs to me that Harvard may be entirely correct not to recognize the importance, or even the existence, of Christendom's chief feast...