Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water's edge. For months Hanoi and Saigon have taken an understandable if unduly partisan interest in the U.S. presidential campaign. Hanoi's newspapers and radio have, of course, always referred to President Nixon as "an odious character of wicked blood," "an imperialist bandit," "a mad dog." Hanoi has not endorsed George McGovern, but because of his pledge to withdraw U.S. forces unilaterally has reported his campaign with respect. In Saigon, evidently with President Thieu's approval, radio and television stations have been broadcasting editorials calling McGovern "mad dog" and "an enemy of the South Vietnamese people...
Stanislav Andreski is no believer in what he calls "the principle that dog does not eat dog," the unwritten code that keeps members of the same profession from attacking each other in public even if attack is justified. A professor of sociology at England's Reading University, Andreski has just written a new book that is certain to enrage his colleagues. In Social Sciences as Sorcery (Andre Deutsch; London; ?2.95), he accuses the world's rapidly increasing population of social scientists of writing more and more about less and less. Their work, he says, is boring, misleading, pseudoscientific...
Forbes Plaza was once again filled with panhandlers and idle passerby, but this year open air commercial activity swelled to new heights. Piles of halter tops, rows of sandals, and racks of baubles clogged the front of Holyoke Center's arcade. And an umbrellaed bright yellow hot dog cart from the Underdog peddled franks and sauerkraut to Cambridge's hungry...
...dreams, distinctions dissolve and the themes can be interchangeable. In Daughter Buffalo, billed as her first novel with an American setting, even the characters seem to blur into each other. Talbot Edelman, M.D., is a self-acclaimed student of death whose inquiries include mutilating experiments on his dog Sally. A lyric-writing old gent named Turnlung is also an expert-a virtual memory bank of death and that other equable state, prenatal life. Both Talbot, the death scientist, and Turnlung, the death artist, develop a need and deep affection for one another. Both are in training for death...
...Chinese unit to fight in Burma under General Joseph Stilwell. Says Frankie: "He never knew whether they would follow him into battle when he gave the order." Her mother, former U.N. Delegate Marietta Tree, contributed some nuggets of worldly observation: "Never mistake a politician. Anyone who has been elected dog catcher thinks he can be President...