Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he was once a world traveler, Russell now lives on an old farm in New Jersey's Delaware River Valley with his wife, two boys, a couple of aging Siamese cats, and a pet starling named Bronstein, which, Russell claims, imitates creaking doors, balky auto engines and knows how to say, "It's time to go to the supermarket." There Russell studies and writes about nature, trying to draw from its complexity an eternal truth: that no action in life functions without regard to other life...
...knows the demands a progressive school makes on a teacher." Now he is at the University of Chicago, giving courses in Joyce and Melviile and serving, along with Hannah Arendt and Edward Shils, the university's prestigious Committee on Social Thought. "They keep me around as a pet," he explains...
...London's latest sartorial smash is a camel's hair maxicoat for dogs. But when the new fashion was promoted in stores and newspapers last week, all of Britain seemed to bark back. Animal psychologists protested that dogs "object to being dressed up." The man at Harrods pet department rejected the coats as downright "impractical." The final word came from the venerable Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which sometimes seems to rival Parliament and Crown as a defender of the realm. "This is the kind of fashion," intoned a spokesman at the R.S.P.C.A...
Whatever his feelings about Chairman Burns, Patman can be expected to continue badgering the Federal Reserve System. Every year since 1934, he has introduced his pet bill to reform it. The present version would force the board, which now sets its own budget and finances its operations mainly from the interest on its holdings in Government bonds, to come to Congress for annual appropriations. Patman would also disband the Open Market Committee, through which the board controls the money supply, reduce the term of board members from 14 years to five, and make the chairman's term expire with...
...horse in a small trailer arrive at the race track and gets stable permission for a racing season. For several races the horse shows no sign of life and the odds on the animal keep rising. One morning the stranger goes into the horse's stall to pet him, feed him some carrots, and give him "a little help." That afternoon the horse should go off at odds of seventy to one, but at post time the odds are only fifty to one. No one notices. The horse wins by five lengths, and the trainer is not to be found...