Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major Concerto for flute and string was the evening's novelty. Called the "Bullfinch Concerto" because of its opening bird-call effects, the piece abounds in sprightly melodies and contains some material used by Vivaldi in his great "Four Seasons." However, the performance was marred somewhat by Phillip Kaplan's breathy flute-playing...
Four days ago, we might have believed that the persons who made off with the sacred symbol of the 'Poon--the Ibis, affectionately known as Thresky--had not known what they were about. We might have believed that the venerated old bird, blown down from his perch atop the Lampoon building, had been carried off by children or others without malicious intent...
...last four days, it has become obvious that Thresky's repeated public appearances have been engineered by some calculating conspiratorial group. It is absurd to maintain that a copper bird could have arranged a series of audiences with notables, or eluded pursuers unaided, Ever since what now appears to have been a wilful theft, his captors have consistently made a spectacle of the revered mascot--to what purpose, save to embarrass and distress its owners, it is hard to imagine...
Thresky spent last night trying to dissuade cowboy star Gene Autry from flying to Chicago. The word-bird made an emergency landing at Logan Airport late yesterday afternoon, after he was wounded by the weekend storm...
Meanwhile, in Cambridge, the bird's former roost-mates began a frantle search for the stray sophist. Several were seen lurking near city pumpkin plots (the bird lives on pumpkin seeds) with purse nets...