Word: coots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neurasthenic to the pathological. But, like a psychic distorting mirror, they reflect reality-well-locked in the subconscious though it may be. Little boys bite little girls; men hear seals barking in the middle of the night; shapeless women spring into rooms crying, "I come from haunts of coot and hern." Doctors abandon restraint ("You're not my patient, you're my meat, Mrs. Quist...
...Kittredges all these problems were connected. They were alarmed to discover in rural Pendleton the same forces of darkness (chiefly businessmen, bankers and local newspaper publishers) that were defeating men of good will in Europe. The class struggle went on even in the haunts of coot and hern, and what was worse, very few of the local coots seemed to care...