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...dogs made him. Sometimes they were royal dogs, like Victoria's spaniel Dash, or Albert's black greyhound Eos. Sometimes they were proletarian lurchers and terriers. Almost always, however, they were moralized. The "pathetic fallacy," the somewhat tiresome habit of affixing human feelings and traits to animals or plants, reached its height in Victorian England. It was Landseer's use of it, along with his extraordinarily realistic observation of fur, fin and feather, that made him a demigod of popular culture...
There was California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston, noted for his cool wisdom and for running a 100-yd, dash in 12.6 sec. at age 55, trying to redefine for a CBS breakfast television audience the meaning of "ironbound," as in "I have 54 ironbound votes against AWACS...
These talks would seem to dash another fear of Harvard administrators--that local residents would be unreasonable if given a significant voice. The community leaders assembled for the talks recognized Harvard's need of at least breaking even on the venture, so they did not protest the office development included in the design. They did not try to block the project; they did not engage in rhetorical battles; they simply sat down with the University's representatives and worked out an amicable settlement...
These talks would seem to dash another fear of Harvard administrators-that local residents would be unreasonable if given a significant voice. The community leaders assembled for the talks recognized Harvard's need of at least breaking even on the venture, so they did not protest the office development included in the design. They did not try to block the project; they did not engage in rhetorical battles; they simply sat down with the University's representatives and worked out an amicable settlement...
These talks would seem to dash another fear of Harvard administrators--that local residents would be unreasonable if given a significant voice. The community leaders assembled for the talks recognized Harvard's need of at least breaking even on the venture, so they did not protest the office development included in the design. They did not try to block the project; they did not engage in rhetorical battles; they simply sat down with the University's representatives and worked out an amicable settlement...