Word: cicadas
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...wish to become one who can sign his name to checks for unlimited amounts just for his own amusement or one who must sign his name to checks that will keep his company the best of its kind, large or small. It's the old story of the cicada who sings all summer and the ant who works all summer. The same old corn we have all heard during our childhood. But the old corn is true to life and the reason for the "moral" with which Aesop ended all his fables. There is a great deal more satisfaction...
These are the days when the songs of the cricket and the cicada are heard in the land. Appropriately enough, American and British scientists have published some arresting studies of the motivations of the noisy insects...
...Cicadas, long known to buzz to attract mates, also make loud noises to discourage birds from eating them while they are mating, reports Princeton Psychologist James Simmons. Several thousand cicadas encountered in a tree near Princeton produced a volume of 80 to 100 decibels when measured from 60 feet away-a noise equivalent to a jackhammer or a screeching subway. Such a sound, Simmons says, could damage the eardrums of a curious mammal and pain the sensitive hearing of a cicada-eating bird...
Basically, the technology of today seeks to replace, by a system of Humanistic Values, the older, Insect Values of social systems, i.e., the values of the Ant and the Cicada. But surely I digress...
...everything in sight. If Mr. Chenery had listened to me, I'd have been naming race horses right and left by now. I've never forgiven Mr. Chenery for this, so I practice on his horses all the time. He has one now called Cicada's Pride. That one is by Sir Gaylord out of Cicada. What's the matter with Noble...