Word: hen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...century--of a century--of quill pens and ink--ink--ink pots, yes, yes, yes, they tell me--ahm m m--that you, that you write in short." This went on in the public street, while we all waited, as farmers wait for the hen to lay an egg--do they?--nervous, polite, and now on this foot now on that...
Paul Rotterdam, senior lecturer on Visual Studies, has removed his live-chicken-and-egg sculpture from Carpenter Center after the hen was stolen Monday and replaced with a roast chicken on a platter...
...HEN NORTHROP FRYE came to Harvard last year to give the Charles Eliot Norton lecture on poetry, he was greeted with an enthusiasm similar to that granted Christ upon his entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Here, finally, was the redeemer of English Literature and--through some kind of magical transformation--of the humanities. Here was the man who could bring together all of the specialists entrenched in the battlelines of literary criticism--the New Critics, the Freudian, the historical-approachers, the biographical-literati, the "high culture" mongerers, and the platitudinists of Christian and Marxist interpretations of literature. Here...
...hen Air Force One touches down at the airport, the half a dozen or so agents aboard alight first and are met at the ramp by a platoon of their colleagues. (The size of a White House detail?always a closely kept secret?varies from occasion to occasion.) The President's limousine, driven by an agent, awaits him at the ramp. The chief of the detail rides next to the driver; the President, usually with an adviser or a local dignitary, sits in back. Directly behind the President's car is the "Queen Mary," an open car with running boards...
...twice her age, he tells us), has withdrawn from society to become the dean of a woman's University"--an institution Gilbert seems to find inherently ridiculous. Anything male is strictly forbidden--the female dons are awakened not by a rooster, but by "an accomplished hen," and one of them is expelled for bringing in a set of chessmen...