Word: fowle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bustard's an exquisite fowl With minimal reason to growl: He escapes what would be Illegitimacy By grace of a fortunate vowel...
...cause or breaks it over the head of a foe. Doctors and their medical pretensions are greedy frauds to Shaw, and he skewers them with paradox and irony. As a vegetarian, he amusingly pictures his funeral procession with his casket followed by the herds of cows, pigs and fowl that he has spared, all in white ties. He eulogizes Christ as a nonconformist and identifies with St. Joan as an "insufferable" know...
...help pay its $20-a-day winter food bill, the sanctuary is asking conservationists to become "foster parents" to a fowl of their choice. For $10, the proud "parent" receives an announcement of the "adoption," a drawing of a bird and visiting privileges at the preserve for a year. The sanctuary has so far collected more than $2,000 in adoption fees, all from people who presumably would rather see a bird do its own stuffing this Christmas...
...performance did not always sound as enraptured or inspiring as it might have. Of course, the brass in the familiar opening "Promenade" and "Gnomus" effectively blurted out the image of the exhibition and the composer's ambling from picture to picture. But until near the final "Hut on Fowl's Leg" and "Great Gate of Kiev," the performance seemed a bit weighted down and torpid in parts. The quick changes of mood in the "Promenades," with the horn, winds and violins heralding a new picture, were well enough evoked. But in certain spots, such as the high-pitched "Il Vecchio...
...collegial authorship, Editor Sigmund Stephen Miller has managed to maintain a refreshingly wry tone. For example, in discussing nutrition, he notes that "sad to say, more organic food is sold than grown." Stressing preventive medicine, which is frequently neglected, he condemns smoking, prescribes liquor only in moderation and cries fowl (as well as fish) to saturated-fat-laden beef...