Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual could put up a billboard, take out a newspaper ad, buy TV time, hire doorbell ringers or mail out leaflets to help. Considering the history of politicians and politics in the U.S., the ruling seems extremely naive-leaving a mile-wide loophole for the return of the "fat cat" to the campaign scene...
...Scot Sloan, "the fighting young priest who can talk to the young ... Didn't you read about me in Look? Birmingham, Selma, Chicago '68?" He lives with his dog, Unconditional Amnesty, and his cat, Kent State...
Later that night I sat quietly at 33 Dunster with a few of my students. Most had heard him with respect, some with faces I hadn't seen before. One said it was "nothing new;" another admitted he'd felt "like a mouse set into a box with a cat" but had warmed considerably during the talk; another said his mind "had been blown." "You know," Dan mused as I walked him to the bus, "I've missed out on a lot. I'm the same age as you, but I never had this college life. I wish had time...
...Great Leap Forward project. Apparently he had some differences with Mao over economic policy. "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production," Teng declared in 1962 in a now notorious phrase, "any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice." At the same time, he also suggested that "the dictatorship be diluted and democracy be expanded," a remark that was later interpreted as a direct challenge to Mao's belief that the party's reins of power should never be relaxed...
...connections are of imagery as well as of hand writing. An essential, indeed an obsessive, side of Goya is disclosed in the drawings on show by that master: blind beggars, stumpy as turnips, caterwauling for alms in the street; an old woman mumbling to her cat; a man in a clownish cap behind a railing, staring from the page with a dreadful mixture of rhetoric and solipsism, entitled simply Lecura - madness. To see Delacroix's watercolor sketch of a tiger, lying on some imaginary ridge in Algeria with the ripples of its striped back imitating the profile of mountains...