Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president addressed most of his pet concerns, such as pre-professionalism among undergraduates and why we shouldn't be so fixated on getting into a Big Name law school. Then he opened up the floor to questions from the group of about 200 students in the dining hall...
...intriguing title is not a joke, nor is it an attempt to reach the Garfield market. It represents a searching effort to determine why a band of Parisian printers bludgeoned to death a lot of cats, notably including the master printer's wife's pet, then subjected several of the animals to a mock trial and hanged them. More important, why did these printers of the 1730s think the butchery was so comic that they guffawed as they re-enacted it in pantomime more than 20 times? Was it sadism? Mass hysteria? Demonic ritual...
...answers lie partly in the master's mistreatment of his apprentices, who were made to work long hours and fed on rotten scraps that the pet cat refused to eat. They also lie partly in the popular tradition of torturing felines, which were widely associated with both sorcery and sexuality, and which were often burned on religious holidays. But why did the printers find that funny? By "accidentally" including the pet along with the alley cats, they were not only symbolically punishing the master but symbolically accusing his wife of witchcraft and symbolically raping her. And getting away with...
...Pet Sematary, King (1 last week...
FICTION 1. Pet Sematary, King (1 last week) 2. Who Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain (2) 3. Poland, Michener (3) 4. Berlin Game, Deighton(6) 5. Changes, Steel (5) 6. Moreta, McCaffrey (4) 7. The Story of Henri Tod, Buckley 8. Hollywood Wives, Collins (8) 9. The Wicked Day, Stewart (10) 10. The Name of the Rose...