Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier novels, Andric attacked tyranny by parable, in his later, by character portrayal. In The Vizier's Elephant, the earliest of the four novels, tyranny is symbolized by a rambunctious elephant, the pet of a ruthless Turkish vizier of a Bosnian town. The vizier is seldom seen; instead his elephant takes his place in public, inspiring all the fear, doing all the damage that the vizier normally would. Andric's implied moral: when man is a tyrant, he may as well be a beast...
...that the tumultuous personalities of Europe-Hitler, Kemal Ataturk, Léon Blum-deserved a full-length book. He did some legwork in Europe, grilled correspondents, composed and sent out a questionnaire he has used ever since ("What is the subject's attitude toward religion, sex, money? His pet hates, pet loves? His danger of assassination?") When the answers were in, Gunther wrote Inside Europe in seven months. Published in 1936, it became an immediate bestseller in England and in the U.S., won Gunther a place on the death list in Nazi Germany...
...loan assumed by the Weesner team when it took control of Guterma's 90.000 shares of Bon Ami stock. But among other offenses, Tel-A-Sign and the Webbs accused Weesner of having used $1,581 in company funds to pay for a specially built cage for his pet macaw...
...Tour has a double value to the very degree that Boswell had a double aim in writing it. His first concern was his hero, and only his second the Hebrides. The two objectives sometimes gloriously combine, but they can just as gloriously clash. Scotland was always for Johnson a pet target that he waggishly exploited as a pet aversion; it produced endless gibes on tour as well as at home...
Into that vacuum stepped Louis Harris, pet political pollster both to Jack Kennedy and to Wagner. Harris, who considers himself less a vote sampler than a political analyst, soon got to analyzing...