Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just love that snow job article about the poets and jazzmen in San Francisco but don't dig the poem about the "bright-headed bird...
...ever since he made the first team at Louisiana's Springhill High School; he had offers of scholarships from Notre Dame to Oklahoma. There was so much activity around the Crow home that N.C.A.A. investigators kept snooping for under-the-table payoffs long after Coach Bryant's bird dogs had carried John David...
...Again, the working out is pure terror, with murder of the body and desolation of the soul at the end. Author Purdy dislikes to be considered morbid and argues that "despair in art shows concern." All his stories are grotesque, but caught in them, like the tremble of a bird in cupped hands, is the undeniable flutter of life...
...weep real tears over a carload of redundant wrestlers). Gallico's cat Thomasina should go down in literary history as an outstanding example of the pathetic fallacy, i.e., the attribution of human emotions to nonhuman objects. There are whole libraries of books that follow the fallacy like blind bird dogs-books about elephants, Teddy bears, toads, and even, in one notorious case (E. B. White's Stuart Little), mice. In the present case, the Gallico Cat ("Who Thought She Was God," according to the book's subtitle) mixes ailurophilia and religiosity in equal parts...
...killed the bright-headed bird...