Word: goat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS is like a craggy old mountain goat. Both have fuzzy white hair, wind-burned features, and a knack for getting onto precipitous ledges. Typically, Douglas is out on a limb once again, this time for publishing a short essay analyzing the ills of American society. By doing so, he has let himself become vulnerable to political enemies who keep trying to push him from his precarious position as a doggedly liberal jurist in a country where there is decreasing respect both for the judiciary and the law. One result of this essay, parts of which appeared...
...Aaab, were you sleepin'?" Irving whispered to a horse in the stall in front of me. "Well, if you're all right now, we'll turn you out." He opened the stall and inside were a horse and a goat...
...goat keeps the horse company,' he explained. "This horse used to pace round and round in his stall. The goat quiets him down. A racehorse is kinda like a woman, ya know. He's temperamental, he's aggressive, and sometimes he's a dog and he makes you hate him. And sometimes you love...
...stories like "Short Friday" celebrate domesticity and the simple virtues: But perhaps Singer's masterpiece of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool." provides the most tender display of his virtuoso talent. In a world which places a premium on wisdom, Singer's hero is the fool, the one who receives goat turds instead of sweets. The simpleton is the perfect symbol of alienated man-the butt of both divine and carthly humor...
...mission fails. Lundquist remains at large. Bell stumbles back into Nomad's hands. But no amount of truth serum pumped into him by Nomad can cure him of exposure. Physical hardship, and the bitter fervor and wild-goat odor of the corpus Lundquist, have quickened his sense of human possibilities. He comes to believe that-contrary to the Declaration of Independence-happiness is not a goal to be pursued but something that overtakes a man only when he hits his full stride...