Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There can be no doubt, not any, absolutely none at all that these people each got their dog to be a baby substitute...
...these college-age dog owners is their original impetuous purchase. To a couple, they each got their dogs at a time of heady emotion, without considering how impossible it would be to fit the dog into their already cramped lives and crowded apartments...
Perhaps this new wave of dogs would mean little to me if one of those aforementioned dog buyers weren't my roomie himself, who bought his dogie ten minutes after passing it in the Mass Ave window of the Pangloss Bookstore. An ill-pondered indulgence...
...roll out and open the bedroom door and find a big yellow puddle in between me and the bathroom. It is this--not the fondling, not the playing of tricks, not the 'stand up; roll over, boy"--that most frequently causes the vectors of your life and the dog's to intersect. That is to say, that in terms of existential moments you get to know the dog by what it leaves behind...
...brought each new unfolding chapter of this problem up before my section on Existential Psychology. The section agreed that the problem was that one had to relate himself to the dog's full existence. For example in the paper training of the dog, they said that it wasn't enough to expect the dog to be behaviorized by the "usual" pattern of threats and rewards. We should make ourselves aware of the dog's entire situation, and then set it up so that his doing it on the paper is consonant with his existence as he knew...