Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scales. At six, he was forced to practice four hours at a stretch by a father determined to produce a moneymaking prodigy. At seven, he made his debut in Trieste, and for the rest of his life, with brief intermissions, he was chained to the concert circuit like a monkey to a street organ. Father had expensive tastes, and Ferruccio, seeking frantic compensations for the frantic life he lived, soon developed...
Trum said that the Center would originally have 400 primates for research purposes, but he predicted twice this number within five years. Animals are already being purchased from dealers in New York and California at prices ranging from $60 for an average South American monkey to $120 for a maccoca speciosa...
...Monkey Brigade. Judged by that criterion, Indira bodes well indeed for India. "My public life," she declares, "began when I was three." Her mother, a frail Kashmiri, was a Congress Party leader in Indira's native city, Allahabad. Father was heir apparent to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the independence movement. Grandfather was a wealthy lawyer and an early member of the Congress movement. The Nehrus' mansion was a center for illegal Congress Party gatherings. Recalls Indira: "The most important meetings were on our lawn." Reprisals by India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both...
...years, Indira was packed off to a Swiss boarding school, but she soon returned, and at age twelve organized a neighborhood society of kids, called the Monkey Brigade, whose small members specialized in sneaking messages past British sentries, picketing stores selling foreign clothes, and freeing adult Congress members from routine jobs. A relative recalls that Indira once rushed up to some British police who were clubbing and arresting Indian demonstrators, crying, "Arrest...
...hardly a fresh Wind. The fictionalized treatment of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" was a 1955 play; the 1960 movie version has been run and rerun on television. But despite the script's many previous lives, Schaefer, employing Ed Begley and Melvyn Douglas from the Broadway cast, managed to make this reincarnation seem new and important...