Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director of the Detroit zoo hired four new security guards last week, not to contain the wildness within the cages, but to protect the animals from the inhumanity of man. In the past two years, the zoo population has been victimized by deliberate acts of brutality. A baby Australian wallaby left the protection of its mother's pouch and was stoned to death; a duck died with a steel-tipped hunting arrow in its breast. A pregnant reindeer miscarried after firecracker-hurling youths bombed the frantic animal into convulsions. Visitors have been observed dropping lighted cigar butts...
...transplanted Australian who likes the U.S.. but I would take exception to your comment that Australia should "think big." In so doing the U.S. smothered its cities, ruined its magnificent waters, defaced much of the land and forgot its poor and its minorities...
Punitive Expedition. Had the burglar been frightened off? Not at all, according to Australian Journalist Neville Maxwell, the London Times correspondent in New Delhi from 1959 to 1967. In India's China War, published in the U.S. last month, Maxwell argues that the real felon in 1962 was not China but India. Though world opinion sided instinctively with New Delhi at the time...
...quarry is finally lured with tubs of whale blood off the Australian reef. In the last reel, the prep-school Ahab finally spots his béte blanche, and both drama and cinema achieve an almost hallucinatory suspense. The crew is lowered in barred aluminum cages. The sharks, at first floating like malignant dirigibles, suddenly bash the metal in rage and frustration. It is more than a cinematic high. It is a justifiable anthropomorphism, a juxtaposition of hunter and hunted that Melville, or for that matter Moby-Dick, would have savored...
Stone is not altogether satisfied with the quality of Australian schools. On the other hand, he finds Australia a better place to raise his daughters. "Young people grow up here under less pressure of permissiveness, of drugs and pornography. Growing up here in the '70s is like growing up in America...