Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual Arthur Freeman has written the nicest things in the issue. Two little poems "Atthis" and "A Pigeon Killed on Beacon Street" move quickly with their short lines and light rhythm; and a delightful irony masks satire in one and resignation in the other. Piero Heliczer's two poems are more lyrical. In P, his lack of punctuation, paucity of long syllables, and predominance of soft consonant sounds combine to produce an attractive whispering quality...
...sons. The charge: that for $15 a week she had been a Batista informer, betraying at least two teen-age rebels to killer cops. When she screamed that she had only pointed out the house where the boys lived, the rebels hissed "Chivata!" (little goat that bleats, i.e., stool pigeon). Terrified, she awaited trial...
Dung & Skull Juice. "To drain off his blood they put cupping glasses to his shoulders, scarified his flesh and tapped his veins. Then they cut off his hair and laid blisters on the scalp, and on the soles of his feet they applied plasters of pitch and pigeon dung. To remove the humors from his brain they blew hellebores up his nostrils and set him sneezing. To make him sick they poured antimony and sulphate of zinc down his throat. To clear his bowels they gave him strong purgatives and a brisk succession of clysters. To allay his convulsions they...
Tennessee's Albert Gore, now safe for another six years in the U.S. Senate, speaking for a Michigan congressional candidate: "If the Republican Party were ever reincarnated into a homing pigeon, no matter where it was released in the universe, whether from a jet plane or in outer space, it would go directly home to Wall Street without a flutter of the wing...
Adam Clymer, class orator, termed the Class of 1958 the "overclassified generation," and denounced the current attempts at pigeon-holing today's young people as the beat generation, the silent generation, or the unsilent generation...