Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Truant Pet. The Two Old Maids is a story about two aging sisters who live in shabby seclusion with their ancient housekeeper and a beloved pet-a mettlesome monkey named Tombo, who, "though a eunuch, was, after all, the male of the house." One day the Mother Superior of the neighboring convent brings alarming news: Tombo has been seen stealing into the chapel at night where he ate the consecrated hosts, tried to say Mass, and even urinated on the altar. It is clear to one sister that he must die. The old maids consult two priests, the older...
...from a Monkey. Today, at least twoscore Americans are going about their business kept alive and active by kidneys transplanted from other people. Some of the donors were living at the time of the operation, some were dead; some were close kin, some unrelated. In Denver, Royal Jones, 12, went blind for a while because of kidney disease but is now well enough to play ball, thanks to a transplant last November from his mother. Another Denver patient, Jerry Will Ruth, 24, got a kidney from Brother Billy, 22; he pumps gas and greases cars, declares, "I feel as good...
...brain tumor. A man in Virginia whose body sloughed off one kidney transplant was making medical history by apparently accepting a second. These were all "homotransplants" (between two humans). But in New Orleans, a woman for whom no donor could be found in time, had a pair of monkey kidneys implanted in her groin. This was the first significant "heterotransplant" (between different species), important even though it finally failed and the patient went back on the artificial kidney...
...views himself, he says, as "a cross between a monkey and a vulture, in a way playful like a monkey and purposeful like a vulture. I also look like them: my nose and eyes sharp like the bird, and my biting area protruding and the chin receding like that of a common macaque. In nature I am pretty much like that. That's how I draw myself...
...that, in this instance, its friend has gone wild." As the week wore on and the Advertiser's fears became fact, the paper reached its inevitable conclusion: "It is very hard, be certain, for the Advertiser to say it, but the fact is that Governor Wallace made a monkey of himself...