Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer copies to suit her. Lowney moves him along to "skits." What about? "A bird, a dog. a boy. a tree." Out of these literary acorns, feels Lowney. giant novels may grow. "I mark them and I write ideas all along the margins where they could develop, where they could get a stream of consciousness." Her marginalia are often crisp ("This becomes idiotic") and sometimes to the point ("You say his uniform was clean. This is the first time I've seen anyone in this story with any clothes on"). Says Tesch: "Lowney really helped me. She went through...
...late spring evening in 1924, a bird watcher named Judd Steiner dropped his glasses near a culvert which crossed the reedy marshlands outside Chicago. Judd, however, had not been watching birds. He had been busily stuffing the mutilated, acid-scarred body of a twelve-year-old boy into a drainpipe. He had a friend to help in this work-Artie Straus...
...interests run the gamut from history (especially Medieval and Civil War) to world affairs to athletics (he often closes his eyes during tense moments of football games and has to ask what happened afterward) to jazz to billiards (he was seeded in the house tournaments last year) to bird watching, geology, and gardening (it is not unusual to find him discussing a problem with a student while him discussing a problem with a studen while yard...
...into a dive, speeded up to 880 m.p.h. and fired a four-second burst (about 70 rounds). Then he went into a steeper dive and fired another burst. As the last bullets left his guns, something struck and shattered his windshield. Pilot Attridge thought he had run down a bird. He headed for the Grumman base at Peconic River, but before he got there, his engine died. He crash-landed half a mile short of the field and broke a leg and three vertebrae...
Examination of the airplane proved that Pilot Attridge had hit no bird; he had overtaken and run down the fire from his own guns. A nonexplosive 20-mm. bullet (used in practice) had gone through his windshield. Another had hit the engine, a third had punctured the nose. If the projectiles had been explosive, Pilot Attridge would not have got home alive...