Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poet (Copper Sun, My Lives and How I Lost Them) and novelist (One Way to Heaven); of uremic poisoning; in Manhattan. Cullen's early work was informed with a sense of suffering, his late with a sense of humor-he said it was written in collaboration with a cat...
...result of showing off to the Littles' cat, Stuart was rolled up in a window shade. The Littles thought he had disappeared down a mousehole (it was an obsession Mrs. Little had). So they got down on all fours "and put their mouths as close as possible to the mousehole. Then they all called: 'Stooooo...
...window ledge Mrs. Little found a numbed bird and revived it. The bird's name was Margalo. With Stuart it was love at first sight. Later he saved Margalo's life by bravely shooting the family cat in the ear with an arrow. Margalo saved him from a garbage scow into which he had accidentally been dumped. Then Margalo disappeared. Stuart left home quietly, got himself a tiny automobile and went in search of her. And so he drives abruptly out of Author White's slim (131-page) book-one of the most lovable little boys (despite...
Moreover, there isn't much action - only jokes about the tomcat in men, the pussy cat in women, the peacock in actors. Nor has famed French Cinema Director Rene Clair (A Nous, La Liberté!) shown the French touch in his staging. Everybody just cavorts...
...goal of science? To blow up the world? If scientists mean what they say-and they generally do-scientific progress is within sight of that nihilistic goal, and may soon succeed in reaching it. Last fortnight Professor John Archibald Wheeler, of Princeton University, almost let this monstrous tiger cat...