Word: mongrelize
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...with canine tales, poems and anecdotes. With more than 100 selections from the likes of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Twain and Thurber, the result is more than mere doggerel. There are, for instance, Odysseus' faithful Argus, who waits 20 years for his master's return, Goldsmith's poor mongrel who dies of biting a man, and Lewis Carroll's Monarch of Dogland, who discourses in Doggee. A must for all those seeking a new leash on life...
...technique has enormous implications for both laboratory research and animal husbandry. A particular strain of mouse needed for experiments could be duplicated in great numbers, as could prize dairy cows, horses, sheep and pigs. But cloning human beings by the same procedure is another story. Homo sapiens is a mongrel breed. Unlike domesticated or laboratory animals, man has not had harmful and even lethal genes bred out of him. These genes remain in humans, many as recessives, suppressed by dominant normal genes. If humans could be cloned by Markert's method, these recessive genes could come to the fore...
...studio albums--Music From Big Pink and The Band most notably--skeptics need only look at the almost unheard-of critical acclaim that welcomed those albums and much of their later work. The Band had it all--five immensely talented musicians and a sound that blended many of the mongrel elements that form the backbone of rock, and despite some personal problems (Danko was so strung out for two years, for example, that he got out of bed as seldom as possible) a devotion to excellence. Given these factors and the group's immense popularity, (The Band's last concert...
...living in a stone mansion on seven wooded acres in suburban Glenview. She consulted a fortuneteller by phone almost daily and produced a drawerful of psychic writings while in a trance-like state. Suspicious of most people, Mrs. Brach preferred the companionship of her nine thoroughbred horses and three mongrel dogs. She seemed close to only one person: Jack Matlick, 48, the Brachs' chauffeur and houseman for 18 years...
...parts began coming in, and two years ago she met and began living with Playwright David Rabe, who has written The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones and Streamers. She and Rabe, 37, now share a big apartment on Manhattan's West Side, together with a mongrel puppy and, occasionally, Jason, Rabe's five-year-old son by a former marriage...