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...provides a home for Victoria, a ten-year-old Persian Angora with silky white hair and green eyes. Fond though she is of Victoria, Harbison stops short of a blanket endorsement of the whole species. Says she: "Victoria is not like a lot of other cats. She is extremely affectionate, and she'll flirt with strangers because she wants to be petted." Any such offerings of affection are wasted on Senior Editor William F. Ewald, who edited the story. Says Ewald: "The only animals I like are the edible ones...
The cat's very singularity, moreover, is the most important bond between man and animal. The wildness of the cat, its instinctual businesslike yet skewed version of reality, is more than enchanting. Behavioral research now postulates that while humans may ascribe to the cat a number of sophisticated genetic...
Investigators have never reached a consensus on ailurophobia-extreme fear of cats. Some postulate a traumatic childhood experience with felines, while others blame the cat's galvanizing stare, or disdain for affection, or even its slippery, furred coat and unfriendly, arching backbone. Traditional superstitions still exist: cats suck the...
Senator Kennedy adds, "The Game brought out our competitiveness, our feelings for each other, and a real sense of tough but fair play. When I look back on it, it is with nostalgia and affection for The Game and for Harvard."
Indeed, so powerful has that image been that one sometimes forgets how splendid he has been as a character actor. The military martinet of Fort Apache, the cold-eyed outlaw of Once Upon a Time in the West, even the hilariously befuddled herpetologist "Hopsy" Pike of The Lady Eve-they...