Word: stille
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...beauty is only scan deep, how can the buyer beware? The best arbiters of children's books are still, as I.B. Singer says, the children who can neither fake a laugh or suppress a snore. It is they who will be formed by the pages they hold in their hands and in their minds. It is they who will decide which books will be read over and over and which will lie neglected until the next garage sale...
...Maurice Sendak has become America's master illustrator. Almost all of the 78 books he has written or decorated are still in print. Some, like A Hole Is to Dig, Where the Wild Things Are, Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life, and The Nutshell Library, are contemporary classics; all are collector's items...
...high school, she broke her neck in a 1967 diving accident. "Somebody has to bathe me and brush my hair and feed me," she says. "In a sense, success for me is just getting up in the morning, looking at that wheelchair and saying, 'Yeah, it's still here...
...various and baffling. George Washington was known not only as the Father of His Country, but also as the Stepfather of His Country and the Father of Pittsburgh. At least four U.S. Presidents were known as "His Accidency" (Tyler, Fillmore, Arthur and Andrew Johnson). That name, while suggestive, is still a cut above "His Fraudulency" (Rutherford B. Hayes). Mar tin Van Buren was alternately called "Whiskey Van," because he could hold his liquor, and "The American Talleyrand" (though Talleyrand was never known as the French Van Buren). We will not discuss Wobbly Willie McKinley or Old Rough and Ready...
...citizens called out to the mayor, "Hey, Mike" and "Mike" this and "Mike" that. The King observed to his host that the people didn't seem to treat him with much dignity by calling him Mike. Replied DiSalle: "If your people had called you Mike, you might still be King." -By Roger Rosenblatt