Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of organizing grievances on "pet" projects, they should organize an intellectual campaign and attack the American political structure at its weakest yet strongest point: DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS. They should stop attacking separate businesses and trust their political activity toward the democratic control of wealth distribution...
Earl Cobb, for one, says the course made him a more understanding listener. It also gave him an idea for a technique that is probably unique in the annals of therapy: to encourage taciturn but obviously troubled customers to open up, Cobb brings his pet fox up from the basement. "A fox is not a very common thing," he explains. "People want to find out about it, so you start telling them about the fox and then they just start talking about their problems...
...most faithful patrons of Washington's Aspen Hill Pet Cemetery is J. Edgar Hoover. Cemetery Director S. Alfred Nash discovered that Mr. FBI has seven little graves there -one with a headstone bearing the inscription "In memory of Spec De Bozo. Born July 3, 1922. Died May 24, 1934. Our best friend." Animal graves indicate something about their owners, says Nash: "A man buries his wife because he has to, but he buries his dog because he wants...
Gradually their attitude becomes more threatening. Amy's pet cat is found strangled in the bedroom closet. "They did it to show you they could get into your bedroom," Amy yells, but David does nothing. Soon after, when the men have almost run David off the road on his way into town, he confronts them in the local pub. David, with a twitching grin, just buys them all a drink. Several days later, the workmen lead David off on a snipe hunt, and while he sits in a field, holding a shotgun, two of the men sneak back...
Divorced once from one wife, three times from another, Peckinpah is presently unmarried, restless, dissatisfied. Trying to characterize the man, a friend recalls that Peckinpah once kept a pet boa constrictor in his office. One day, the friend found Peckinpah staring at the cage, which contained the snake and a petrified white mouse...