Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acting, she now recalls, made up for everything: bird-legs, teeth braces and no beaux. "The only boys who liked me were characters -you know, intelligent. I wanted one like Robert Taylor." At 16 she heard about an acting camp in Colorado run by Charlotte Perry and Portia Mansfield, and there was no holding her. For three summers in a row she ran off with almost all the best parts. "At night I dreamed about being a great star like Bernhardt," she says. Nor was Bernhardt enough in those days; she also intended to be Pavlova. Her family had taken...
Faced with the order, Crimeds decided on temporary suspension of publication, and sent the author to take care of more pressing University problems (see above). With 2000 students planning to eat in the dining halls tomorrow, he soberly readied two and a half tons of bird. Meanwhile, the Hoovermen--federal and vacuum--will join hands in a sweeping effort to clean up culprits and carpets alike...
...CRIMSON will devote tomorrow to the bird, and the next day to recovering from it. In hopes that some of the estimated 6000 vacationers will have returned by Saturday, Crimeds will publish the results of FBI and personal investigations on Saturday...
...Bird in Puritan Cage. In the main, Santayana bit his tongue and bided his time until his savings and a bequest made him modestly independent. In 1912, at the age of 47, he set off to live in Europe for the rest of his life. Escaped from his Puritan cage, Santayana had released himself not only for flitting from London to Paris to Florence to Venice to Rome but for strenuous mental flights in the bulk of his 30-odd works. The delight of the letters is that Santayana is always ready to stray off the course of his philosophic...
Before reading your Oct. 24 explanation of the Crown of Thorns by Alfred Manessier, the painting had already become a "meaningful experience" to me. I thought it was two red eggs in the nest of a mentally confused bird, over which a one-eyed crap shooter had carefully laid a spiked steel trap...