Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another culture. Franz Boaz, the dean of American anthropology and Mead's teacher, directed her to look at adolescence and sex roles in Samoa instead. Out of the Samoa experience emerged Growing Up in Samoa, a bestseller. But along with instant success came instant criticism that was to dog her throughout her career. Mead, many anthropologists argued, over-simplified, over-generalized, drew conclusions from sketchy evidence and interjected herself and her psychological interpretations too often and too much...
...already made the line: "It's just a big deal. And your names are announced at the games." On those Friday nights every autumn, high school football mania sweeps across Texas, consuming everything in its path. But unlike Northern fans, Texans never streak for the restrooms and hot-dog stands at halftime. They stay to see the marching band and, especially, to watch the high-strutting twirlers showing off flash, skill and baby fat in their tight, sequined costumes...
Still in a half-befogged state from Yale weekend, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club [HRDC] stumbled into the Loeb on a recent Monday morning to serve his eight-hour slot behind the box office window. Puttering through a collection of weekend mail, tattered ticket stubs and dog-eared programs, he caught sight of an unfamiliar sheet of stationery and did a double take. Someone had slipped the Loeb an anonymous note. The letterhead, The Yale Dramatic Society. The message, a poem...
...honey, she was rebelling. She wasn't too happy at her new school, and then her father and I got divorced, and then her dog died, so she just decided to rebel, yessir. She was on the dope line for a while. But she's all straightened out now," adds Weezie's mom, popping a chicken liver canape...
...lunatic," said the butterfly hunter. "Oh. Then probably you wouldn't know the way to Nocknagel Road." But the lepidopterist does, and eventually the searcher lands where he belongs, in the arms of a beautiful poodle. Which is all right: the hero is fond of putting on the dog. In Tiffky Doofky (Farrar. Straus & Giroux; $7.95), William Steig shows why his juvenile following equals the Pied Piper's, and how four decades as a New Yorker cartoonist have taught him exactly where and how to pull his punch lines...