Lenny Locust Dials Up a Barroom Debate on 1970s Politics
In a dim bar scene a sharp tongued LENNY LOCUST debates a mysterious figure about taxes, pensions, and ideologies while a pollster probes the street for public opinion. The exchange blends nostalgia, political labels, and cultural references as characters drift between juke box chatter and barroom philosophy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick
Howard K. Smith
Zenith
Howard
Lenny
Mayor Beame
Charley Pride
Angel
platoon school concept explained by Harold D Sylvester
Looking Back Harold D Sylvester explains the platoon school plan dividing pupils into two groups called platoons with one group in home rooms mastering fundamentals while the other engages in activity in special rooms. Also notes Christmas street decorations favored by about 15 Bennington merchants meeting in Chamber of Commerce rooms and Edward Barber and Mrs Barber accepted as educational missionary candidates by the Methodist Board of Missions in New York.
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Harold D. Sylvester
Bennington
Chamber of Commerce
Edward Barber
Frank Barber
North Bennington
Barber
Methodist Board of Missions In
New York
Farm life with missing animals and old Maine cats
Dispatch from the farm follows Ray Nelson’s patchwork menagerie with a pig, duck, three cats, geese and hens. The narrator notes care routines, barnyard quirks, and hopes for Rhode Island Reds while recounting cat shortages, breakfast duties, and a humorous Maine setting.
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Ray Nelson
Linda
Iowa
Ray
Maine
Rouen
Rhode Island
Illiteracy debate challenges tests and prose
A critical look at a Texas study finds 23 million adults functionally illiterate and explores why tests measure comprehension poorly. The piece mocks bureaucratic jargon and argues reading with understanding remains essential amid Education Office concerns and Orwellian anxieties.
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Boston
U.S. Office of Education
University of Texas At Austin
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King of Beers
Loudmouth
John Wayne
Wall Street Journal
Ante Roosevelt
Triumph
Roger Maris
DEE
Bosch
Breughel
Rimbaud
True Account Polling Service
U.S
Egypt
Israel
India
Gotham
George McGovern
New York City
Charlie Pride
Harry Reasoner
John Gould
Friendship, Maine
Verne Blackstone
Rhode Islands
Buck Orringtons
Christian Science Publishing Society
Dan Heilman
Bradford Smith
Shaftsbury
Treasury Department
Harold Wyman
U.S. 7
Arlington
Edith Wyman
Henry Stone
East Dorset
Norton Barber
Arlington Water Co
M.A. Safford
Wallace and Tiernan
Albany
N.Y
Richard Hayes
Manchester Water Co
Alan Mattison
East Arlington
Washington
Warren Harding
Arlington National Cemetery
Gerald Ford
Lionel M. Kaufman
Scarsdale, N.Y
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