Word: caged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George P. Vierheller, 84, director of the St. Louis Zoo from 1922 to 1962, a latter-day Noah who transformed his domain from a dreary bar-and-cage animal prison into a bright parkland with moated outdoor bear pits (an idea imported from Germany), sunlit monkey houses and aviaries, and circus-style animal acts, all of which set a new style for zoos in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...month to his family. "It is beneath our dignity to meet," he explained by letter to Wife Ilse, 66, who runs a small Gasthaus in Bavaria's Allgäu Alps. Belatedly, Hess has become a freedom lover. "I would never again put a bird in a cage," he wrote to Ilse. "Only now do I fully understand why the Chinese and Japanese, when fate is especially kind to them, go to the market, buy a bird, open the door of the cage and let him fly away. One day I will do this...
...nearest neighbor on the tree of life, but neither has found the neighborhood entirely respectable. For man, that hairy presence stands just too close for comfort; outside the chimp cage at the zoo, the human observer begins to wonder uneasily who is amusing whom. In this illustrated primer of primate lore by Desmond Morris, curator of mammals at the London Zoo, and his wife Ramona, the sympathy of the authors is placed solidly behind the bars...
...beginning of the summer, the Summer School Administration expressed concern over the possibility of friction between its students and local youths. Early in July, Dean Baird said he was worried about a mixer across the river in Briggs Cage, because large numbers of girls would have to walk back to their dorms late at night...
...JOHN CAGE: VARIATIONS IV (Everest). Composer Cage arranges a curious counterpoint to the playing of David Tudor by splicing a variety of noises into the staccato piano theme: the sound of traffic on the street outside, a patrician English girl chattering nervously, a chanteuse, a coloratura, a boy soprano, Florence Foster Jenkins murdering high D at the end of the Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute. Oddly but irresistibly, they add up to a cry from the heart...