Word: denned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Posters had advertised activities in Playboy's Penthouse, Playboy's Den, and in Playboy's Library. Somehow, despite the strong incentive for day-dreaming encouraged by the $5 entry fee, these magical areas looked exactly like the dining and meeting rooms in Harkness Commons with insufficient lighting...
...quote a line of poetry in a conversation preserved in Chapter 26, but he confesses he thinks it's "schmalxig." Rehder and Twaddell have in fact found only one man who is culturally aware (he is, I think, one of the Schmidts). Herr Schmidt has written a book Ueber den Untergang der Weltl, he announces with pride. But Schmidt is resolutely cold-shouldered by average-man Steinhauer, who remarks (witheringly) "So? Das ist ja sehr interessant...
Roar from Father. Living Free follows Elsa and her human den mother from the lioness' mating, at the beginning of September 1959, through the birth of three cubs 108 days later. The Adamsons established a camp in the game reserve where Elsa had been turned loose, and kept a herd of goats to be doled out when the pregnant lioness could not hunt for herself (Joy Adamson is sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect...
Elsa's British publisher visited the camp and awoke one morning to find himself pinned to his cot by the lioness, who nibbled affectionately at his face. Den Mother Adamson was severe: "I gave her such a beating that she sulkily left the tent." By this time the reader has become as fond as the author of this literary lion, and it is a sad thing to read, on the last page, that there will be no more books about Elsa. She died of a blood disease early this year (TIME...
...crisis or in calm, the citizens of Berlin like to go to the opera, and they like to go in style. Since the war, though, the only suitable house in the city has been the ancient Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in the Eastern sector, and operagoing has been a mixed pleasure for people from the Western half of the city. But last week crisis-weary West Berliners finally had their way. The striking new $7,000,000 Deutsche Oper Berlin, four years in the building, was opened on the site of West Berlin's old Deutsches Opernhaus, which...