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Word: fawn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. The author maps the life of the flamboyant Victorian explorer, linguist and erotologist and concludes that his real passion was not for geographical discovery "but for the hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 18, 1967 | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...little creature and avoids light. It is, says Arkansas' Dr. Calvin J. Dillaha, "potentially more dangerous than the black widow because its appearance is insignificant to the point of innocence." It has a body not more than half an inch long. Its color varies from fawn to chocolate brown. It thrives in dark corners and crevices in barns and attics, closets and storerooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxicology: Beware the Brown Recluse | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON by Fawn M. Brodie. 390 pages. Norton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Saga of Ruffian Dick | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Clinical Detachment. Such a man naturally attracted many biographers-ten in all-and played dashing walk-on parts in innumerable histories and memoirs. His eleventh, Fawn M. Brodie, has shown her skill before (Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens, Mormon Joseph Smith). She intrepidly explores the intrepid explorer, and in Burton the mystery is darker than any continent. He is a hard chap to map. His source may lie in the Peaks of Paranoia or the Pools of Narcissus. It is anybody's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Saga of Ruffian Dick | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...woman." To prove that a peaceable kingdom is a possibility-at least on his 260-acre preserve near Los Angeles-he has combined such unlikely pen-mates as a python and a chimpanzee, a lion and an elephant and, most unlikely combination of all, a tiger and a fawn. "We humans live a phony existence," he insists. "We have fallen out of rhythm with nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: King of the Beasties | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

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