Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bird...
KENNETH I. BIRD JR., M.D. Temple University Hospital Philadelphia...
...Lyndon Johnson thumbed through his Father's Day gift from Daughter Lynda Bird last week-F.D.R.'s old copy of Aesop's Fables-he might have come upon the tale about the dying lion. As the King of Beasts declined in strength, the story goes, the lesser animals trooped up to his cave, no longer subservient. The boar attacked him with his tusks; the bull gored him; even the ass, feeling quite safe, kicked up his heels and brayed. "Ah," sighed the failing King, "thus dies majesty." In the waning months of the Johnson Administration, TIME...
...wall and look very much like twelve-sided swimming pools, Davis will protest that all he meant to depict was "the illusion of a dodecahedron." What makes the dodecahedron distinctively different is that it is shown as though seen from far, far above. The effect is achieved by using "bird's-eye perspective," a method that relies on three vanishing points instead of one. Though long known, it was rarely used before the 20th century came along with its airplanes and skyscrapers. The viewer thus placed, as it were, in midair, may well feel as though the ground were...
Imagine it: Cahaly was fitted for a top hat and morning coat and Elsie was decked out in peasant costume. The Sheriff of Cambridge County was to open the ceremonies, and the Harvard band was to play. But at 2 a.m. the night before the Big Day, the bird disappeared from the off-campus apartment in which it was residing. No festival. Two graduate students, probably Swarthmore graduates and bitter, who lived upstairs, had casually stolen the bird. Not knowing what to do with it, they handed it over to Alfred E. Vellucci, Cambridge City Councilman, who nabbed prize television...