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...member of a specific breed of running horse, pedigreed descendants in, the direct male line to one or other of three specific "founding fathers"-the Byerly Turk, imported into England in 1689, the Darley Arabian, in 1704, the Godolphin Arabian, in 1728.* All other "pedigreed" animals, whatever their genus, species, breed or variety, are "purebred" or "standardbred." Racing harness horses, pacers or trotters are standardbreds, no matter how much thoroughbred blood may have been used in that breed's creation. All dogs which are not cross-breds or mongrels, but members of established recognized breeds, are purebred...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...Cooke does make one contribution, more or less incidentally. He reveals his won opinions on the case as it unfolded, and in doing so paints a picture of the genus "Confused Liberal." First he thought the whole Chambers story preposterous. Later he saw that espionage had been committed in the thirties but doubted Hiss' part in it. Finally he felt that the weight of evidence seemed to be against the defendant. But like the rest of us, he still doesn't know what the final truth will be in the Hiss-Chambers story...
Temperamental Artist. Not all spiders make prey-catching webs. Of the web-makers, the genus Aranea is the master weaver and engineer. Aranea spins the familiar but complicated "orb web" a large number of segmented rings on a framework of 25 to 35 spokes. Although the typical orb web may have 13,000 or more tie-lines, the spider makes a new web every day, and, like a temperamental artist, never deigns to do repair work. She* puts glue on the silk to make it sticky. To prevent quick drying (or for some other reason), the glue is concentrated...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For those people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...