Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the Crusades by Torquato Tasso, the opera tells the story of the Christian general Rinaldo and the Saracen queen Armida. It is a spectacular mixture of pagan magic, military pomp, vocal fireworks and other trappings of the Italian Baroque operatic style, then the rage in London. During the "Bird Song" of Almirena, Rinaldo's true beloved, a flock of sparrows was let loose. The waspish essayist Joseph Addison had fun with that in The Spectator. "There have been so many flights of them let loose that it is feared the house will never get rid of them...
...bird was not the only thing to take wing from the head of Charles Dillon Stengel. By the time he died last week of cancer at 85, Casey had become past master of baseball's two toughest positions-jester and genius...
Says Brenda Bird, a buyer for Alexander's, the big New York department store chain: "We can't keep them in stock. Price is no object." Agrees Kal Ruttenstein, a Saks Fifth Avenue vice president: "It's the only fashion silhouette this fall." Retailers and manufacturers, reports Women's Wear Daily, "are already viewing it as the sleeper of '75." Cinnamon Wear, a sprightly New York fashion house, has filled 10,000 orders for its lower-priced ($45 to $50) jumpsuits since last spring; Saks stores across the U.S. have sold...
Ccertainly, a writer is not a bird. The notion that a writer spews patterns of words as naturally and compulsively as a bird emits its song is romantic, and Jean Paul Sartre finds it an annoying and common idea. It is a myth that writers tolerate out of vanity or humility. The vain ones like being thought of as vaguely magical. The humble ones avoid talking about themselves--their goals and their techniques--and this reticence leaves their occupation swathed in mystery. Sartre has patiently tried to explain the process of writing; he disects literature continuously and intently...
Every day at dawn last week, Cesar Chavez was out in the green and gold California fields, pleading with Mexican, Filipino, Yemenite and native American workers. At 7:15 a.m. one day, the charismatic Chicano had to halt his early-bird campaigning and leave the Elmco Ranch near Delano, Calif. The time had arrived for the 725 workers on the huge, grape-laden spread to decide whether to join Chavez's beleaguered United Farm Workers of America or remain in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which has held the union contract since 1973. The election yielded a margin...