Word: pandas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Churchill liked to relax with a hot water bottle wrapped in a panda cover. Stalin had thin, sloping shoulders and achieved his robust look with a padded military greatcoat. George Bernard Shaw teased Nancy Astor about her boyish bosom. Such are the recollections in Memories, the just-published autobiography of Biologist-Author Sir Julian Huxley, 76. And how would Sir Julian himself like to be remembered? "Not primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human, and nothing in external nature, was alien...
...Auden looks very, very old. His hair is flecked with white, and, head erect, shoulders hunched, he lurches forward, an amiable panda in dark glasses and checkered bedroom slippers. His age is etched on his face, in the wrinkles that twist and turn, crossing over and flowing together, streaking across in thin, deep lines. At 63, he has worn out his face, and, when he leans back, eyes closed, the creases of his eyes and mouth branch out into the spreading wrinkles. W. H. Auden-in the thirties, that name labeled a new generation of pocts; by the sixties...