Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of a vacation. A couple of her friends had decided to go to Nova Scotia where a strike of fisherman and cannery workers was beginning. The fishermen had had an orientation meeting and decided to set up a picket line. The next day, Lisa, three women, and a dog manned the picket line. Within an hour word spread like lightning through the town and women and children left their homes and joined the line. So did the Canadian Mounties. End of strike...
...large in the world that a "man of knowledge"?his term for sorcerer ?must learn to use. Prepared and administered by Don Juan, the drugs drew Castaneda into one frightful or ecstatic confrontation after another. After chewing peyote buttons Castaneda met Mescalito successively as a black dog, a column of singing light, and a cricketlike being with a green warty head. He heard awesome and uninterpretable rumbles from the dead lava hills. After smoking humito and talking to a bilingual coyote, he saw the "guardian of the other world" rise before him as a hundred-foot-high gnat...
...around me, very low and narrow, hard and strangely cold. It felt to the touch like a wall of sol id tinfoil...! remember having to crawl towards a sort of round point where the tunnel ended; when I finally arrived, if I did, I had forgotten all about the dog, Don Juan, and myself." Perhaps most important, Castaneda remained throughout a rationalist Everyman. His one resource was questions: a persistent, often fumbling effort to keep a Socratic dialogue going with Don Juan...
Long ago Fuller adopted the Thomas Edison system of quick snoozes so that he could manage 22-hour working days. Yet it is typical of Fuller's unorthodox way of looking at the world that he first got the idea of catnaps from watching a dog. In his familiar role as a minister of progress from the 21 st century and "publicist for the universe," Fuller is not only a generalist in the best American twinker-tinker tradition, he is the human equivalent of Telstar-intercepting the music of the spheres and vectoring it down to earth with...
...periodic relief administered to Tricki Woo, a pampered little Pekingese constantly overfed by her mistress. To be fair, though, as Herriot invariably is, the struggling assistant vet is every bit as susceptible to .the sherry and smoked oysters supplied him by Tricki's dowager owner as the dog is to her indulgences...