Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the hippies were in full flower. In New York City, they brought their tambourines and guitars to the aid of dog owners protesting the leash laws in Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park, chanting "What is dog spelled backward?" Other New York hippies raised $2,100 for a bail fund to rescue "busted" (arrested) buddies. At California's Seal Beach, 2,500 devotees gathered for a sunny "love-in" that throbbed to the rhythm of trash-can drums and random flutes. In Dallas, 100 "flower children" gathered in Stone Place Mall, the public hippiedrome, to protest...
...British House of Commons, just before it filled up one day in 1867 for a lively debate on a bill to tax dog owners, a bare quorum bothered to vote on the legislation that created a confederation out of three Canadian colonies. Canadians made no special fuss over the event. Now they are making up for their initial apathy. All year long they have been celebrating their centennial...
...When a dog's social relationships are uncertain, or its family environment is insecure, or its master fails to live up to the kind of leadership image the dog has in mind, there is fertile ground for the seeds of mental illness to take root...
According to Miller, who takes it all quite seriously, a dog can be afflicted with an "anxiety syndrome," a "jealousy syndrome," the "secretary syndrome," "dominance frustration," "barrier frustration," or even "psychosexual misorientation." And that's bad, because dogs burdened with those neuroses tend to destroy bedroom slippers, jump on guests, bite mailmen, wet on carpets, bark early in the morning and stop wagging their tails...
...dog thus troubled can see Miller for six 50-minute sessions for $245 (in advance). Miller has a B.S. in child psychology from California State College, and a "doctorate of psychology" from a now-defunct Kansas City, Mo., institution called the College of Philosophy...