Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take garbage and make it acceptable to people in the street," Tarashinsky explains. "We take a nylon parachute and dissect it just like a butcher takes a cow apart. We use it all." In late 1959, Tarashinsky bought 200,000 surplus ammunition cans from the Army for 12? apiece. He found few takers until he discovered that the handles tilted to make an excellent shoe rest, so he peddled them as shoeshine stands, sold 196,000 to one customer for 20? apiece. "I'm known as the king of the ammo cans," says Tarashinsky...
This common type of aggressive intellectual tease is new to Griff, but he is happily prepared to be teased-until she goes too far. In a lecture, "Religion or Eroticism," Lydia indulges in pseudo-Freudian persiflage on all Griff's favorite hymns. "Bloody blasphemous cow," he thinks, and tells her off in strong valley language. It is a compelling story so far-both gay and dismal. But Novelist Gallic will not let Griff welsh on his Welsh-ness : she wants him to win. In the end, the stage seems set for a true marriage of mathematics and letters...
Traffic & Tithes. Though Indian agriculture ministry officials privately call cow worship a serious drain on their country's resources, Hindus in millions still say as they have through the ages: "The cow is our mother." India remains the world's great cow country: its 202 million head of cattle (almost one-fourth of the world's cattle population and double that of the U.S.) compete for food with its 400 million human inhabitants...
Shelter or Slaughter. Actually, for every Hindu tradition that forbids cow slaughter, progressive Hindus can find another that permits it. But butchering is banned outright in eight Indian states and restricted to very old animals in most others. Recently the Supreme Court ruled that state laws fixing the slaughtering age for cows at 25 years were unreasonable and suggested that 15 was old enough. According to one Delhi official's bitter estimate, the 10% of India's cows that are old, economically useless and fit only for the rest home program devour the output of 40 million...
Parkinson is a man more grotesquely awful than the lepers, given to misquoting tag lines from the great English anthology poets, and he is dead set on making Querry into another Albert Schweitzer, a sacred cow sanctified by journalism. With facts dug up from the newspaper morgue, involving the suicide of Querry's mistress, the correspondent is determined that his own Parkinson's Law ("A truth is a truth insofar as it is believed") will override the private legislation in Querry's dead soul...