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...screenwriter on leave from his wife. The prose still has an unwashed smell, but it has been sponged off here and there with the English lavender of Henry James. The details are still gutsy. In the earlier book, a lonesome U.S. soldier tries to make a pet of an owl, thoughtfully breaks its legs so that it will not escape; in the Hollywood retelling, the girl screams and vomits uncontrollably at the inevitable Mexican bullfight...
Blessed Mother Goose. Other critics scoff at the nearly total domination of kiddies' books by such animals as Saggy Baggy Elephant, Curious Little Owl, Peter the Sea Trout, Cottontail Rabbit, Brush Goat, Milk Goat, Cuter Tooter (a donkey), Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Brown Bear, The Happy Lion, Big Brown Bear, Mister Dog, Shy Little Kitten, Snuggly Bunny, Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose. Not that animals are new in fables, but now nearly all writers of children's stories seem to suggest that 1) the animal kingdom has become an animal democracy where no one would ever...
...poets like T. S. Eliot (whose cat Macavity was a being of singular depravity) or those who are as sensible as Dr. Johnson (he had a cat called Hodge and he fed it oysters) or as mad as Edward Lear (who had a cat called Foss which resembled an owl) should be permitted to write about cats. A cartoonist like the late great Herriman, whose Krazy Kat spoke a wild, weird kind of New York Yiddish in Coconino County, Ariz., also belongs in this noble company. Not so Thomasina. Cats may be useful animals to have around any house...
WALTER J. STAHURA, Winthrop; Football; Baseball; Varsity Club; ROTC; Pi Eta Club; Owl Club; Caisson Club...
...owl in black and white and gray by Willard Midgette looks out from the cover of the latest Advocate with a seniorial air of wisdom. Both the color and the air of the owl match those of the two stories therein, by Sallie Bingham and A.E. Keir Nash...