Word: homo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "The country's flora and fauna ought now to award him a scroll inscribed with the fitting title, Curator Naturae. Failing that contingency, the Princeton species of Homo sapiens takes pleasure today in bestowing upon him [an] honorary degree...
...considers another myth-bisexuality. This, he says, "has no existence beyond the word itself-[it] is an out-and-out fraud, involuntarily maintained by some naive homosexuals, and voluntarily perpetrated by some who are not so naive. The theory claims that a man can be-alternately or concomitantly-homo-and hetero-sexual. The statement is as rational as one declaring that a man can at the same time have cancer and perfect health. Some homosexuals are occasionally capable of lustless mechanical sex with a woman . . . They tend to marry as a means of proving . . . that they are completely normal...
Alias Sapo. In his tepid way, he tells himself little stories to while away the time. Or perhaps he writes them, since he keeps the stub of a pencil, sharpened at both ends, and a notebook in his room. One story concerns Mr. Saposcat (Sapo for short, and Homo sapiens, of course) and his wife, who worry about whether their teen-age son will pass some sort of exam. Another is about a farm family that happens to bury a mule. Even though Malone becomes Saposcat temporarily, these episodes dribble into nothingness in keeping with Beckett's conviction that...
...three. But as the course got under way, interest kindled, and the students' zeal had the professors feeling breathless. From 7:30 a.m., when their day began, until past 11 at night, the middle-aged scholars gobbled up lectures on everything from physics to philosophy, e.g., "Homo Symbolicus or Is Man a Rational Animal...
...aging white-haired man who walked about Moscow, staring with rheumy eyes at the broad streets and tall buildings. He was Andrei Bubnov, one of the five top Bolsheviks to direct the October 1917 Revolution. As Lenin's Commissar of Education he had set out to create Homo sovieticus, the new Soviet man. But somewhere along the line, vodka-swilling Andrei Bubnov had tangled with a new type of Soviet man called Joseph Stalin, and in 1937 he disappeared. Unlike tens of thousands of other old Bolsheviks, Bubnov had survived 19 years of Soviet prison camps, to be raised...