Word: owl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stone's credentials in the world of finance, Harvard, and the upper class run quite long. At Harvard he presided over the Owl Club and was captain of the heavyweight crew. He currently chairs the board of the West India Shipping Company and the General Energy Corporation...
...indigo. Schliemann traveled to California in 1850, when he was 28, and made another fortune provisioning gold miners. He returned to Russia and accumulated still an other pot of money, and finally retired at 41 with an ambition that seemed to have blown into his skull like an owl through an open window. He wanted to find Troy, the fortified city to which Paris abducted Helen, and which the Achaean heroes Menelaus, Agamemnon, Ajax, Achilles and Odysseus be sieged for ten years...
...wears his rue with a certain deference. Most of his revelations are brief, more marked by tact and irony than by whine or whimsy. In truth, Mummy, a daughter of the rich and distinguished de Sélincourt family, does not come off very well. When Rabbit says to Owl, "You and I have brains. The others just have fluff," Milne makes clear that "the others" emphatically included his mother. She was dim, she hated games and was good only at gardening, interior decoration and tying parcels-the one "practical thing she was properly taught in her whole life...
...Acre Wood, Galleon's Lap (where Pooh and C.R. said their last goodbye), Christopher Robin's tree house and the Pooh-sticks Bridge were real. The book offers photographs juxtaposed against E.H. Shepherd's matchless drawings to prove it. The animals were real too, except for Owl and Rabbit, though Kanga and Tigger, Milne explains, "were later arrivals, carefully chosen ... for their literary possibilities...
...standard stuff; the one element that could have made the difference - a novel, incisive reason for David's fear - is absent. The only secret here is in the title. Some years back, Robert Enrico made a highly regarded short film of Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. His new film is turned out with the same sort of spare, elliptical edginess, but it lacks the force of Bierce's classic surprise ending...