Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dolls, idols, ceremonial masks by American Indian primitives, was work by Painters Masson, Delvaux, Chagall, Tanguy, Magritte, Vail, Hirshfield. Of those canvases faintly visible behind the 7-ft.-high string cobweb was a huge new Freudian nightmare by Surrealist Ernst. Painted specially for the exhibition, Surrealism & Painting depicted a nest of multicolored bosomy birds, from whose naked, writhing limbs a semihuman arm emerged to paint its creator's conception of the disorderly universe. In the next room hung early canvases by de Chirico; also three recent Picassos, one of which, Les Femmes au Bord de la Mer, dwarfed...
...thought Garrison the most bewitching personage I had met in the U.S."), spoke vigorously at an Abolitionist meeting which was in danger of being mobbed. She was indignant to think that the "pirate colony" of Texas might be admitted to the Union, condemned the admission of Missouri ("a nest of ... rapacious slavedrivers") as a shattering blow to those who saw in America's "moral power" the beginning of a "long series of conquests over physical force and selfish cunning...
...When bird nesting in Bihar [India]," he writes, "I was strolling alongside a high, dense cactus hedge when my attention was drawn to a bird [female cuckoo] flying up from behind over my head and settling on the ground about 25 paces beyond me. I ran up to within about ten paces, screened from her sight by a bush, and then saw she was sitting quietly on a small mound, back to me and quite motionless. Presently I saw her put her head down and her shoulders heave, as if she were being sick, and then immediately...
...cuckoo problem that most deeply engrosses Ornithologist Baker and others is: How does the cuckoo get the egg into the nest? This problem is posed by the fact that some wise birds build nests with obstructive entrances for the express purpose of keeping out cuckoos. The cuckoo has developed several methods for outwitting these isolationists. Cuckooists recognize a First, Second and Third Method. In the First Method the cuckoo simply squats down and lays her egg. The Second Method is somewhat more complicated, comes into play when the cuckoo is momentarily baffled by a nest built in a hollow tree...
...extremely rare Third Method, a kind of fourth dimension among cuckoo problems, that is still controversial. The Third Method is used when a cuckoo encounters a nest with a very small or tortuous entrance. Unable to squat or cling, the cuckoo flutters to the ground, lays an egg, is thought by some to swallow it, then poke her long bill and neck into the nest opening, and regurgitate...