Word: birding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember (Dr. Bandura relates) reading a story reported by Professor Mowrer about a lonesome farmer who decided to get a parrot for company. After acquiring the bird, the farmer spent many long evenings teaching the parrot the phrase, "Say Uncle." Despite the devoted tutorial atteniton, the parrot proved totally unresponsive and finally, the frustrated farmer got a stick and struck the parrot on the head after each refusal to produce the desired phrase...
Escape Route. A case in point occurred during Lyndon Johnson's recent visit to Manhattan to address the National Urban League. Lady Bird was being feted at a private party, a sit-down dinner for 18, and the President decided to drop by to pick her up. That simple excursion from the Hotel Pierre to an apartment on the West Side turned into a major production, the sort that has frayed Johnson's patience-and is certain to fray that of his successor. As L.B.J. described the caper to friends afterward...
...mile "Farewell Tour" of the U.S., Lady Bird Johnson strolled through the cathedral-like majesty of the redwood country of northern California. Pausing at the base of a 657-year-old giant, she placed a plaque designating the 27,000-acre Redwood National Park, a project that has pitted the Government and conservationists against private lumber concerns that have been felling great swatches of the dwindling redwood stands. "This is the crowning moment of a crusade that has lasted two generations," she said. "It would be a tragedy if tomorrow's tourists find a repetition of yesterday...
...Vice President Hubert Humphrey's favorite forms of relaxation is taking to the fields for a brisk go at game-bird hunting. Last week, for a day, he was able to indulge in his hunting hobby on a private preserve, and by noon he and his party had knocked down 75 birds for the bag. When asked by a reporter about his future plans, Humphrey smiled cryptically and said he expected to have "something to announce by Christmas. A semipublic position." That mystery introduced, the Veep potted a few more pheasant, then winged off to his Minnesota home...
...story is overly familiar, and Joanna could have been just another imitative chronicle of a wounded bird, in the manner of Darling or Poor Cow. But Director Same, who also wrote the script, has given it purpose and individuality by flashing back and forth through Joanna's life, ransacking her dreams, exploring her past and minutely exposing the style of a swinger with inventive images that linger in the retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed...