Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressed his character, ideals and aims probably best in his books on the state of American music. One work, Choral Conducting, is full of the shrewd, tactful stratagems he used to command the complete loyalty of his singers. Music Education in America, written in 1926, assaulted many of the pet notions of the public and the musical professions: he ridiculed sight-reading and compulsory piano lessons for young children and derided the idea that music was best taught by drill, when drill presented discipline and not understanding...
...monkey-gland rejuvenation operation. When a scholarly greybeard named Mr. Bacon came into the New York American's offices primed with schemes of calendar reform and admitted, conversationally, to two carnal thoughts a year "at the most," Fowler knew he had his man. He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon." The operation went off with a burst of flashbulbs and headlines. Unfortunately, Mr. Bacon looked ten years older after his rejuvenation:"One result of the operation...
Died. Elsa, 5, 300-lb. lioness-companion of Mrs. Joy Adamson, a Kenya game warden's wife who recounted her pet's half-domesticated, half-savage career in Born Free, one of 1960's top bestsellers; of undetermined natural causes; in the Kenya jungle. Taken in by Mrs. Adamson as an orphaned cub, Elsa slept, ate and played with the Adamsons for three happy years until they reluctantly returned her to jungle freedom, from which she would re-emerge periodically to show off to them her own three cubs...
...Jackie and her younger sister Lee (now married to her second husband, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, a Polish nobleman turned London businessman) lived according to a social pattern as undeviating as a cotillion. Winters were spent in a Park Avenue apartment (where Black Jack indulgently permitted Jackie to keep a pet rabbit in the bathtub) while Jackie attended fashionable Chapin School. At six, Jackie had her own pony, by twelve she was riding in horse shows, and her love of horses is abiding. As Jackie and Lee grew older, they met their beaux under the Biltmore clock, fox-trotted through subscription...
...previous year," but still left room for improvement. "That explains the reorganization of the Virgin Lands," he volunteered, and dropped the first word that tubby Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich had been sent to the Central Asian boondocks to take charge of Khrushchev's pet project (the Virgin Lands have suffered their third crop failure in five years). Grinned Khrushchev, "Out there Matskevich will be right on the job instead of signing circulars in Moscow." Later the Soviet boss...