Word: cribs
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...turned out to be impractical, so Dr. Lenard paid for his book's first edition himself. Surprisingly, there was a lot of interest in the modern world, and finally, the translator turned to the U.S. He had obviously heard that the U.S. was a prosperous country with a crib in every nursery...
...gibberish is fairly effective as he tells of being summoned at 4:30 a.m. to catch an early run ("I wake up ... in the mouth of the night and there everything knows that I have no mother, and no sister, and no father and no bot sosstle, but not crib, and I get up and sit up and says 'Howowow?' and he says 'Telephone?' " There is, after all, a character described in Lonesome Traveler. It is Kerouac, full of wonder, wind and wow - as always, his own best invention...
...everybody is too genial about major and minor fraud. Parents are light fingered with the maid's social security payments; Dad might "gift" the cop on the beat with a fifth of whisky for overlooking his daily parking violation; the children, taking their cue from the elders, might crib on an exam or lie about a date...