Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homage to the Virgin. Incorporated into the salady festoon are samples of all that the hothouses, orangeries and private zoos of Flemish aristocracy could offer. Roses and carnations are mixed with more pungent garlics, cabbages and peppers; common wheat is intertwined with pumpkins and artichokes. Even a capuchin monkey in a clown costume drags a fruit basket toward the Madonna. Avont's maternal scene in the center, except for some winged cherubs, is more touched by pastoral piety than divine illumination...
...made the magazine -74 glorious lines of puns about what happened "since the day Nkrumah was ostrichized." The day after the story appeared, some of us had second thoughts; but to make matters worse, TIME readers respunded in kine: "Next time some anteloper in Ghana snake in and monkey around with the gnus, lemur know...
Died. George P. Vierheller, 84, director of the St. Louis Zoo from 1922 to 1962, a latter-day Noah who transformed his domain from a dreary bar-and-cage animal prison into a bright parkland with moated outdoor bear pits (an idea imported from Germany), sunlit monkey houses and aviaries, and circus-style animal acts, all of which set a new style for zoos in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...Morrises acknowledge sadly that simian acuity makes an ideal subject for laboratory experiment, but they rather disapprove of the whole business. In one case, two rhesus monkeys were strapped into adjoining cubicles and subjected to electric shock. One of them, designated the Executive Monkey, could stop the shocks by pulling a lever, which he was required to do for hours on end. The other soon learned that his control was a dummy lever, and lost all interest...
After 23 days, the second monkey was as placid and healthy as ever, but the decision maker died-of ulcers. The Morrises charitably refrain from pointing out the obvious moral, which is not that man's nearest neighbor is smart enough to get ulcers, but that the ape's nearest neighbor is dumb enough to inflict them...