Word: goldfinch
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Finally, Peterson included brief, no-nonsense bird descriptions that were as minimal and sharp as his illustrations. One of his most famous captured the male common goldfinch: "The only small yellow bird with black wings." Commit that to memory, and no male common goldfinch flying by will ever again go undetected...
...smoking too (many) cigarettes, with a crocked lung," and shrugged off his mysterious illness as his destiny: "A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities." He stressed his dedication to a pure but unrewarding craft: "Poetry wouldn't keep a goldfinch alive." And he professed to be above the battle to support himself. "There is no necessity for the artist to do anything," he lectured her. "He is a law unto himself...
...detail or anecdote that would humanize each Bishop of Rome for our readers. Thus we reported that Pope Pius XI, a scholar, took special delight in mechanical contraptions and gladly accepted the gift of a dictating machine from Thomas Edison. The ascetic Pope Pius XII allowed a pet goldfinch, named Gretel, to perch on his arm each morning as he shaved. And on busy days in his office, the formal Pope Paul VI often doffed his cassock and worked in shirtsleeves...
...depict Dixy Lee Ray as a charming, inoffensive goldfinch is singularly inappropriate. A better choice would have been a grizzly bear-and with a sore...
...hoped someone would put the goldfinch back in the cage...