Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Decorous sexual pursuit, though, is merely an excuse for more than the usual typhoon of Shavian ideas, the torrential flow of blindingly bright words. Shaw steadily sounds his pet themes: the chicanery of politics, the corruptive power of money, the degrading stench of poverty, the servile dependencies of marriage and family, the charlatanism of medicine, the fossilization of learning, the tyranny of the state, the stupidity of the military and the bigoted, sanctimonious zeal of the church. And ever and always, the eternal humbuggery of the English, used and overused by Shaw for comic relief and casual abuse...
...professional sobriquet is Sherlock Bones, and he operates what he believes to be the world's first dogtective agency. Actually, John Keane, 32, a former insurance salesman, will try to track down any lost pet in the San Francisco Bay Area-and to date has been retained to find an errant parakeet and a strayed horse, as well as hundreds of Fidos and felines. The strapping ex-Marine is aided by Paco, an old English sheep dog who wears a deerstalker hat and slurps champagne, and by a legion of kindly kids whom he calls, naturally the Baker Street...
...these pursuits. A lost dog may travel miles before it is picked up-or dog-naped. If it winds up in an animal shelter and is not claimed within five days it will probably be destroyed. For a $30 fee Keane advises the client on how to find his pet and supplies a form poster that can be individualized with a description of the loved one (Keane recommends a minimum $50 reward). For $100 plus expenses he will devote himself exclusively to finding one pet, and with the Irregulars will scour a neighborhood as thoroughly as Mr. Holmes...
During the debate, Adler returned to a pet theory: that the good life promised by American democracy will come only when liberal education is truly universal. Said Adler: "We are hypocrites if we continue to think that the equality of citizenship belongs to all, but not the equality of educational opportunity...
...balance passion and Pragmatism: What was all of Broadlawns and its treasure compared to a lover like that?" But how long will he love her like that?" In the end she has even become something of an efficiency expert by keeping a homosexual who is her manager, pet confidant and lover...