Word: owl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labored all afternoon on the roof of Widener Library and bored holes, at carefully measured ten foot intervals, into the ledge around the interior court. In these holes were inserted poles with strings dangling from the end. At the end of each string there is a nine inch gilt owl which sways menacingly in the wind. The pigeons have been fearless, however, and continue to walk and roost on the ledge with no thought of their own safety...
...which Casey and Babe are seen peering through an open window as Miss Rosten prepares her breakfast. Actually half of the shooting took place from inside the kitchen of Gilman House at Radcliffe. The street-view shots of the Peeping Toms, however, were taken outside the Owl Club, because the first-floor level there made peeping somewhat easier than the greater height from the ground of the Gilman kitchen. When Miss Rosten seems to be pulling the shade on her uninvited guests, the shading is actually being performed from inside the club by an Owl...
...Reader Barth recall that the owl is a symbol of Greek Goddess Athena, goddess of wisdom...
...doggedness in sifting a stupefying quantity of material, and in separating the living wit from the dead cats flung in literary battles long ago. The parody buff will find few representative favorites missing here (J. C. Squire is one). Macdonald was uplifted by his rediscovery of The Stuffed Owl (title taken from a wonderfully woeful Wordsworth poem of the same name), an Anthology of Bad Verse published in 1930. He was dispirited by the six-volume collection of parody published in the 1880s, which contained 86 versions of Gray's Elegy, 60 versions of Poe's The Raven...
...Owl of Minerva, by Gustav Regler...