Word: herons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hanlon's subjects range from a dipping, dabbing Ouzel to a mournful Solemn Heron and a whole series of popeyed, studious-looking little owls. His materials are chunks of volcanic rock found in California's hills. He chisels a bosomy pouter pigeon from pitted grey pumice, uses polished quartzite for the silken feathers of a nesting woodcock, letting the shape of the stone suggest his forms. He chisels a fierce eagle, coldly eying the world, with a few simple curves; in his owls, a rough triangle of stone becomes a beak, a sharp shelf of rock becomes...
...weird, heron-like copper bird he was getting. "Tell me, what does it symbolize?" he asked. "Oh," replied the Harvardmen, "it's a sort of American peace dove." "Well," said Tsarapkin, "it is a very fine gift. Peace be with you and yours...
...rumpled and untidy as his rooms. The tweeds he wears are worn and baggy, his thinning grey hair unruly, his bushy grey mustache in need of a trim. Bony and angular, with pale, piercing eyes, he looks, as one American interviewer put it, rather "like a spare, intelligent, ruffled heron...
Nibbling the Cheese. These days, the heron is hobbled, too. In a fall last June, Forster broke an ankle, and he still keeps it strapped and limps about painfully. But the flashing intelligence and humane spirit which gave the 20th Century one of its finest novels, A Passage to India, are as unhobbled as ever...
...dead mouse in midair, and under water to see weary salmon returning to their spawning beds. A young beaver goes off on his own, sets up housekeeping with a widow and her baby beaver and builds a dam for the family. A skulking coyote preys on the well-camouflaged heron and bittern and the nimble marmot and badger...