Word: breed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps he is the man to put them there. Harvard hockey had its share of trash-can bangers, and this is a different breed of captain...
ORLANDO BELONGS--with Ajax and Avalon--to a curious breed of proper nouns whose senses have passed over the centuries from the epic to the cheap and commercial. Once the name was instantly recognizable as the hero of Ariosto's 16th-century narrative poem; now it conjures up the strains of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon "Round the Old Oak Tree" and the sun-soaked giant mice of Disneyworld, Florida...
...BRITISH: In addition to being patriotic, Britons also appear to be truly a happy breed. Of those surveyed, 95% insist that they are "quite happy" or "very happy." But there also seem to be contradictions in the way the British see themselves. They take more pride in their work (79%) than do those of the other countries, which seems strange in a nation renowned for bellicose trade unions, work stoppages, strikes and generally poor industrial relations. The British watch more television (20 hours a week) than anyone else (the Danes and Dutch read more newspapers). But they also prove...
...different breed of cat is the star of A Dark Dark Tale (Dial; $8.95). Here the central role is taken by an unnamed black cat who once upon a time on a dark, dark moor takes a journey through a dark, dark wood to a dark, dark house, up dark, dark stairs . . . Ruth Brown's spooky read-aloud book pretends to be scarier than it is: even the youngest listener should be delighted by the punch line. The book's mysterious power is engendered by the illustrations of weed-choked gardens and abandoned, echoing halls, of mullioned windows...
...with that patter, but he is tired now. "When you're 40, you'll find you get tired," he says. A few silent minutes pass. "Every so often," and his voice diminishes again, "a certain breed comes along. History might produce something better than Joe Frazier and me later, but not now. You can't make me believe Sugar Ray Leonard and Tommy Hearns is as big as me and Joe Frazier in the Garden. Joe was great...