Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Decorating the Commonwealth's Coat of Arms and the tails of Qantas jetliners, the kangaroo has every right to be called Australia's national emblem, though many Australians sometimes wish they had never heard of the beast. Anywhere from 6,000,000 to 16 million kangaroos roam the Australian plains, alternately drinking up the outback water supply and eating the best pasture grass. For these reasons alone, the nation's sheep herders and cattle ranchers not long ago decided the kangaroo had to go, and at last count their vendetta was producing...
...reproducing machine that the founder claimed "did for sculpture what Gutenberg had long before done for the written thought." The machine triumphed: cheap copies of the work of les animaliers became as plentiful as paperweights. In the exuberance of mass-produced craft, Barye's exuberance for the noble beast got lost...
...water for man and beast during the hot summer when no rain fell, they carved enormous cisterns in the rock and made them watertight with many layers of plaster. These cisterns still exist by the thousands and are only waiting to be cleaned out. Glueck considers them more dependable than the common Israeli pipelines, which can be cut by Arab saboteurs...
Another problem that nettles Seltzer is the Loeb's remoteness from the rest of the university. "An amorphous beast," its location, architecture, and advanced stage equipment implicitly prevent if from being part of the community. But because they do so now "is no reason to fall back on professionals. People are no longer frightened by all that machinery. It must remain a student theater." Therefore new ways must be found to stimulate students, one being the Marlowe-Shakespeare Quadricentennial. However, Seltzer realizes that time remains a nagging difficulty; few undergraduates can manage a full production schedule and still thrive academically...
...ROBERT F. KENNEDY. Bobby and Ethel used to keep a barking sea lion in their pool, but after the beast chased Ethel into a parked car, it was sent ott to a zoo. Now the Attorney General and his wife go in for more formal entertaining. Ethel has refurbished Hickory Hill, seats her guests on period chairs, provides candlelight. Ethel tends to greet her guests with an over-the-shoulder "Hi ya kid," but there have been no dunkings lately, and her parties, attended by diplomats, Cabinet members, and Bobby's Justice Department boys...