Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lasses in beaver coats, come away, Ye shall be welcome to us night...
...that Greg keeps makes up this awkward, yet stubbornly obsessing book. At first, the entries are all G.I.-the duty jargon of a young eager beaver who has few doubts that superior officers will see his log and praise him for Going by the Book even on a desert island. Then solitude begins to work its mischief by mixing up time and perspective-bleaching the freshest memories, reviving older ones to an almost unbearable intensity...
...DELIA arrived in Alaska in 1948, worked for a while in Ketchikan, then drifted over to the Skwentna region, where he built a cabin and started trapping. Skwentna is good mixed-fur country-mink, marten, lynx, wolf, otter, beaver, muskrat. Fifteen years ago, trappers got good money for these pelts. Minks, for example, brought about $36 each; today Joe Delia is lucky to average $10. Lynxes, on the other hand, have improved. You can get $60 apiece-when you find one: the reproduction cycle has made this animal scarce...
...least making an effort in the play to deal comically with his favorite themes-the inadequacy of human communication and understanding, and the failure of language to save doomed people from their own self-destruction. Overplayed, however, the defects in the play, the dated language and Leave It To Beaver quality of most of the jokes become painfully obvious. The Loeb production overplays badly...
Bouton tells, for instance, of "beaver shooting," which in his words "can be anything from peering over the top of the dugout to look up dresses to hanging from the fire escape on the 20th floor of some hotel to look into a window. I've seen guys chin themselves on transoms, drill holes in doors, even shove mirrors under a door." When Bouton was with the Yankees, he recalls how Mickey Mantle used to lead hunting parties to the roof of the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, B.C. "One of the first big thrills I had with the Yankees...