Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, stocky Crain, known to his teammates as "Bull," has been a consistently strong runner both this year and last. A standout his freshman year, Crain was considered a member of the varsity's "Big Three" both last year (with Ed Hamlin and Ed Meehan) and this (with Meehan and Walt Hewlett...
...lustrous metal the quickening touch of the artist's hands. Capralos also makes minuscule bronzes, some no more than three inches high, which have the pulpy look of ancient artifacts dug up after centuries. Some are whimsical toys others complex hieroglyphs-one called Sacrifice is at once bull and matador, the horns becoming the man and his sword while another semicircular form suggests that the whole object is the sword's hilt...
Golly they're cute. Bodger, for instance, is an amiably rheumy old bull terrier who can hardly stand up to a fireplug. Tao, Bodger's best friend, is a maniacally active Siamese cat who seems to think he's a dog. Luath is a big, dumb, blond, delightfully floppy Labrador retriever who pals around with the other...
...wants only to marry his Dulcie and persuade his servant Atracta to cook breakfast on time). So are Sedition and Salvation (respectively Atracta, the mindless mother of fatherless triplets, and her confessor, the insane but otherwise reasonable Father Behan). There is, furthermore, the besotted yardman Tomo who leads a bull into Michael Duff's kitchen for reasons that to him, at least, seem perfectly logical at the time...
...until well past the middle of the book, the party is dreadfully sober, bull in the kitchen and all. The funny people stand around with glasses in their hands, and the funny events occur, but the reader never feels the giddiness that good farce and a certain kind of intoxication can produce: the sensation of having temporarily mislaid the horizon and of knowing you can locate it again with no trouble if only that calf will stop licking your face...