Word: indifferente
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The start of the Irish legend, Cool Joe the Comeback Kid, is also the start of the misunderstanding. He has been taken to be cold, indifferent, standoffish. "I am affected by things, but I don't show it." He is unflappable. I'm emotional, but nobody knows it...
As a boy, TIME Associate Editor J.D. Reed was indifferent to cats. Recalls he: "For a lot of men, cats are an acquired taste, like eating snails. A boy growing up in the Midwest wants a dog. It's a macho thing." Later in life, though, Reed's...
It is an almost unbudgeable popular belief-and a false one-that cats and dogs have an instinctive rivalry. Animal owners, however, are often more partisan than their pets. "I'm not a cat person, I'm a dog person," is a frequently expressed predilection. The cat is...
Outside the simple sheep barn, a few visitors take their last look at Leahy's New England village, set behind a large pond. Others crane at the 40-ft.-tall plastic man or gaze fondly over the fairground. Some vendors wear black armbands, but it is a futile gesture...
What if none of this matters? That is the troubling question Stone raises throughout the novel. He vividly portrays high adventure, but then makes it look of no more account than what the cynical Marty Nolan calls "a catalogue of ape behavior." He sets his characters the task of finding...