Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon this small bird, native only to Texas, may be just a footnote in an ornithology textbook-another species that failed to adapt to man. One of its last retreats is Meridian State Park, a 461-acre tangle of cedar breaks and cactus populated by rattlesnakes, red-spotted toads, tarantulas and a steady flock of hardy bird watchers who come to catch a glimpse of the warbler. Now the local Lakeview Recreation Association plans to build a nine-hole golf course right in the middle of the warbler's nesting ground...
...winter in the Freshman Union talking about the war. The conversation was a strange one for we were engaged in flights of fancy as to how one might end a war that still seemed inexorable. In other words, how one might most persuasively address a stone wall: "Suppose a bird flew up to you one day and said, 'If you cut off your toes. I guarantee that the war will end.' Would you do it?" The question seemed reminiscent of grade school and cootie-catchers, but it was easy to answer since we all tend to belittle the importance...
...next night we all sat together again, and it became obvious that everyone else had been thinking too because we immediately started talking about the war. During a Iull in which we were all shovelling down our food, my devilish roommate, who had first postulated the talking bird, said very slowly that there might be way in which those of us sitting at that table could bring the war to an end. Gasps. We lit the essential cigarettes and listened to his proposal for the creation and organization of H-RSC: The Harvard-Radcliffe Suicide Club. It went something like...
...Next follows a little scene with Vice-President Johnson being sworn in as President in the cockpit of Air Force One. He is a grim and serious man, but ready to serve. His wife, Ladv Bird, is beside him. Both, of course, are from Texas...
...character tells how he went for a walk in the park with his girl. They sat down. He held her close. He held her closer. A bird shat in his eye. "What did you do then...