Word: loring
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From this you deduce that "Lore Segal . . . filed a solid minority objection." Wrong guess...
...LORE SEGAL...
...illegal possession of two dead bald eagles, a species even more endangered than the buffalo ever was. Funmaker conceded that he had shot the eagles down-presumably with spiritual intent. It was a somehow unlikely collision of the white man's belated ecological law with an Indian lore that for centuries has taken nature to be sacred. The judge let Funmaker off with a $100 fine...
...that Walker Percy, John Updike and E.L. Doctorow, to name only the three most notable examples, had each produced a skilled, serious and powerful novel in 1971. This year, though, most of the customary groans and hisses were reserved for the slenderest and the newest categories. One judge, Lore Segal, a writer of juveniles, filed a solid minority objection when the children's book prize went to Fantasist Donald Barthelme for his arch and static The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering, Thithering Djinn...
When fellow judges in the new contemporary-affairs category chose The Last Whole Earth Catalog, the celebrated counterculture collection that includes a short novel as well as lists of tools, materials, lore and advice about how to live on the land, Garry Wills walked out on the proceedings. The winner, he complained, was a nonbook, and the product not of a writer but of a large group of collaborators...