Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruark learned to read, mind his manners and hunt quail under the guidance of his grandfather, a leathery old Southport, N.C., Socrates who, in his literary reincar nation in The Old Man and the Boy, was good company but perhaps a little too fond of saying such things as "children ain't nothin' but puppies anyhow." This second book is more of the same, with a few of Ruark's African adventures thrown in. Like the first, it is written in sloppy, shoes-off language, and the fact that the author now buys his shoes for pounds...
Given two chimpanzees (A and B), both "other directed," both infinitely fond of food scraps, and occupying neighboring cages in a public zoo. By making a fool of himself (by scratching, jumping, chattering, etc.), Chimp A wins the love and peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches of the selfless little schoolchildren who visit the zoo. Question: How do A's antics affect the behavior...
Sometimes a little too cute?Walter is the children's "alternate sponsor"?Jean Kerr is also overly fond of using the language of television commercials. But she is wary of puns and uses them with care?"Idle roomers beget idle rumors"?preferring to play on people rather than words. For she is a devastating parodist, whether in a single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant...
When she is not amplifying their deeds in writing, their mother can talk about them with fond objectivity. "Chris is the funny one," she says. "John is serious, like his father. John has only been struck about three times in his life; Chris we hit about three times an hour. John's reflective. On election night at bedtime, John said, 'How will I know if Kennedy gets elected?" I said. 'I'll come in and kiss you.' He said, Tm a heavy sleeper. You'd better slap...
...pitfalls. In its preoccupation with political judgments, the News stands in some danger of being a newspaper whose strength lies mostly in its shout. Its last major crusade came in 1924, when it helped chase the Ku Klux Klan out of Texas, although Dealey is still fond of pointing out that the News was the first Southern newspaper to call venereal diseases by their right names and the first paper in Texas to crusade for arsenical cattle dips. The News has only two staffers outside of Texas: Washington Correspondents Robert E. Baskin and John Mashek. Aware of its news deficiencies...