Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grads who assembled in the Amherst College chapel one day last week, the reunion brought back more than memories of student high jinks, flunked exams and eccentric professors. In the pulpit, conducting chapel service just as he had done so many times more than 30 years before, stood a bird-like man of 85. Former President Alexander Meiklejohn (pronounced Meekle-john) back at Amherst for an official visit, was the hit of the reunion show -as mild-mannered and spry as ever, but still very much the maverick who stirred up some of the biggest educational storms of the 1930s...
...tourists and fewer novelists visit the Molise region, which stretches, a withered Achilles tendon, above the heel of the Italian peninsula. Novelist Giose Rimanelli, who was born in this doomed place, has produced a bitter fictional report centered on a village that hangs like an abandoned bird's nest on a waterless escarpment between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic. His story, in translation at least, is as stiff, ill-fitting and yet appropriate as a peasant's wedding suit...
...Silver Chord. In Dearborn, Mich., Gerald Kiwak was puzzled at the parakeet sitting on his fence squawking "luzonone-fournineninetwo," until his mother tried the number, returned the bird to its relieved owner-trainer...
...Bird Dogs & Bargains. Bibb Falk's teams have been winning, and Falk has been bellyaching ever since he took over Texas baseball in 1940. Rival coaches have long since ceased to listen to his plaints. But Bibb spoke for them all last week when he attacked the raiders-the fast-talking big-league "bird dogs" who scout college campuses for the least sign of talent, who use the lure of a pro contract to bargain for an athlete's amateur standing...
Despite its iridescent charm and aura of good breeding, the miniature became a lost art with the advent of the cheaper, more accurate, less demanding photograph. In its presence, one expert ruefully noted, the miniature "was like a bird before a snake: it was fascinated-even to the fatal point of imitation-and then it was swallowed...