Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marriage was annulled that I learned he'd been married earlier to an American girl," said the ex-Mrs. Morton-Stewart. "I ran into him a year ago, and he took me out to lunch-champagne, a whole chicken, liqueurs. Even while I called him a dirty dog, he smiled into my eyes. He was still the same old charmer...
...coldly classified her appearance as "unprepossessing but took a high shine to her etching voice. After a breaking-in period she was funneled into a script called The Mars Are Singing that had aging Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, youthful Soprano Anna Maria Alberghetti (TIME, May 8, 1950) and a performing dog to recommend it, but little else. To Rosemary the director parceled out a couple of routine songs, Haven't Got a Worry and Lovely Weather for Ducks, and a reprise of Come On-a My House; it began to look as if the already overloaded script might topple...
After the intermission, the second act began with an explanation of psychic powers by an "independent expert," Professor Sanjean, owner, trainer, and confidante of "Emir, the only dog in the whole world who can read your mind." Sanjean told the audience that the "only reason telepathy isn't more widely recognized is that peope are on different wave-lengths." This meshed nicely with the assurance Bey's interpreter gave before the program that the "astral, or soul body is the force that binds the chemical body to God. And Bey, by completely mastering the astral body, loosens the silver chord...
...interested in peace. A man whose passions run so high he strikes natives in his anger at the sea is not concerned with reason. A man who sets out to battle demons of the deep which out-weigh and outwit him, with only his wife and bull-dog for company, cares little for security. He is an adventurer, and his tale is one of adventure...
...that it matters; by then, Edmond too, has lost most of his wits and all of his money. He has also put his psychology into reverse: instead of trying to behave like a normal human being, he now struggles to become a normal dog. French and English reviewers of this blunt and ferocious book have likened 32-year-old Author Dutourd to Voltaire and Jonathan Swift, and have sifted out various interpretations of the Dutourd message. Dutourd himself is no great help: "I am not trying to prove anything," he says- "merely to tell a story...