{"id":68148,"date":"2014-03-17T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=68148"},"modified":"2014-03-17T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:01:39","slug":"calling-all-princesses-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/17\/calling-all-princesses-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling All Princesses, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_68153\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/princess_telephone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68153\" class=\" wp-image-68153\" alt=\"princess_telephone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/princess_telephone-1024x632.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bell Telephones debuted the Princess phone in 1959. Image via Attitude Analyst<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The OED has made <a href=\"http:\/\/public.oed.com\/the-oed-today\/recent-updates-to-the-oed\/march-2014-update\/new-words-list-march-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">its latest update<\/a>. Among the new words added: <em>wackadoo<\/em>, <em>toilet-paper<\/em> (as a verb), <em>cunt lapper<\/em>, and <em>assisted living<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Minneapolis\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/publisher-news\/article\/61438-graywolf-at-40.html\" target=\"_blank\">Graywolf Press turns forty<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Evocative shots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/2014\/03\/new-york-worlds-fair\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York\u2019s 1964 World\u2019s Fair<\/a> recall a time when the future was full of wonder, typefaces were chunkier, and you could ride a giant tire like a Ferris wheel.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/03\/14\/how-english-majors-are-ch_n_4943792.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why should you major in English<\/a>? Because Barbara Walters and Mitt Romney did, of course!<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/object-of-the-day\/2014\/03\/14\/crossed-wires-gendered-technology-princess-phone?utm_content=bufferc36f3&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s little! \u2026 It\u2019s lovely! \u2026 It lights<\/a>!\u201d An enlightening history of Bell Telephone\u2019s 1959 \u201cPrincess phone,\u201d \u201cthe first phone specifically created for teenage girls and women \u2026 in its beauty and its place in the home, [it] was the embodiment of perfect womanly qualities of the time.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OED has made its latest update. Among the new words added: wackadoo, toilet-paper (as a verb), cunt lapper, and assisted living. Minneapolis\u2019s Graywolf Press turns forty. 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