Word: goat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Harvard's fifth man, Thad McNulty, collapsed from sheer exhaustion and was unable to complete the race. McNulty, in the 28th position when he dropped out of the competition, needed only to capture one of the top 39 slots to secure the trophy for Harvard. "I'm the goat," McNulty said immediately following the race, "there's just no way to get around that...
...Gaulle to gourmet cooking, was as impressed as his companion by the Chinese he saw, calling the country "Communism with a smile." Mike remembers Mydans working day after day as if he wanted to capture that expression on a a billion faces. "Carl chased around China like a mountain goat," says Demarest. "He was patient, inexhaustible and, above all, unflappable...
...kept saying, on and off, for the next 20 years. He tried to prolong his life with injections of goat hormones, and at the same time lamented his longevity. As he reached toward 90, Willie was constantly lionized, and he just as constantly complained, "Why can't they let me die?" On one occasion he compared his life to a party. It was "very nice to start with, but has become rather noisy as time has gone on. And I'm not at all sorry to go home...
...fact, man and chimp exhibit more genetic similarity than horse and zebra or sheep and goat," Devore said...
Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun sets to music Mallarme's L'Apresmidi d'un Faune, a symbolist poem replete with a striking vagueness, fluidity and sense of reverie. A faun--half man, half goat--arises from his sleep near Mount Aetna in Italy and wanders through the woods. The whole image is one of dreamy light and dark, tentativeness and delicacy. The faun chases a group of nymphs up and down the mountain, but ultimately loses them as he once again yields to the soothing oppressiveness of sleep...