Word: furred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school English classes. Also attacked was a collection of myths that appeared to challenge the literal interpretation of the Bible, to be used in junior high school classes. Others found an E.E. Cummings poem with lines like the one referring to pubic hair as "shocking fuzz of your electric fur" too erotic. At an open meeting in June, jeers, shouts of "Communist!" and threats drowned out the few who spoke in favor of the books...
...narrative well. He organizes the book as a series of interconnected novellas, focusing each on one or two central characters. The tale of the shrewd French trapper Pasquinel and his Scottish partner McKeag becomes a roving chronicle of the West from St. Louis to the Rockies in the early fur-trading days. In a later set piece, Michener brings pageantry to the ancient cliché of the cattle drovers beset by thirst and outlaws on the long trail from Jacks-borough, Texas, to the South Platte...
Time and again he reduces his charac ters to elements in static landscapes, fur ther distancing us from Molly and friends. friends...
...Singer Tom Jones was photographed giving her a soulful kiss, Millionaire Peter Revson was seen squiring her around, and last month, after a tiff, Britain's swinging Soccer Star George Best allegedly broke into Marjorie's London apartment and stole her passport, checkbook, correspondence, liquor and her fur coat, plus other miscellaneous loot. The British organizers of the contest decided that Marjorie's idea of being single was giving "the wrong impression." They stripped her of her title, costing her about $120,000 in promotion contracts. "Events occurred over which I had no control," she said philosophically...
...living expenses that pursued him. (DeVoto had a fondness for domestic help, new Buicks and private education.) This "literary department store" came as close as he could to respectability as a historian. In 1948 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Across the Wide Missouri, a chronicle of fur trappers in the 1830s. Five years later, a National Book Award came for The Course of Empire, which starts with a provocative quote from Columbus to Queen Isabella and ends with the Lewis and Clarke Expedition reaching the Pacific...