Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society, it is now his duty to spend four or five evenings a week at official functions. Possessed of an immense amount of secret information, he is elaborately circumspect about his party talk. If he is asked an embarrassing question, he launches into what his family calls "the goony-bird routine"-a lengthy discussion of the goony birds he saw on Midway Island during his trip to Korea with...
...fierce eagle, coldly eying the world, with a few simple curves; in his owls, a rough triangle of stone becomes a beak, a sharp shelf of rock becomes a wing jutting from a rounded body. Says O'Hanlon: "It's not that I'm crazy about birds particularly-I'm interested in all nature. I've just chosen the bird as a symbol. I'm really concerned with form, and birds offer wonderful plastic possibilities." Brought up in a remote part of the Sierra Madre foothills, O'Hanlon could hardly help being interested...
...another first for the Harvard Yard. No man from Mars, no new president, not even a solid riot, this spectacular "first." But only a bird...
About a month ago a small green love-bird departed from its cage in a Prescott Street apartment and set our to explore the neighborhood. With the anxiety of an expectant father, Roman Jakobson, Samuel Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and owner of the bird, stayed up all night waiting for her return. The next morning she wandered in blissfully and Jakobson, with mild censure, returned her to the wire, webbed cage. Such concern is not rare in Jakobson. Those who know him say that he is a devoted man-attached to his studies, to his friends...
...Attack. In Philadelphia, firemen blamed the burning of Mrs. Hattie Cur ry's house on a bird that tried to use a lighted cigarette to build its nest...