Word: pigeoneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as he cannot be classified by school, neither can Gonzalez be pigeon holed according to subject matter or media (he uses oils, casein and watercolors). Says he: "Subject matter is unimportant. It is what you do with it that counts . . . I do not try to imitate nature but try to abstract from it what will serve to express a philosophy...
Rainbow on the Road's fatter dividends are paid in local types (traveling songsmiths, drovers, eccentrics) and local talk ("She was plump as a little pig. active as sin, awkward as a calf, and not much more legs on her than a pigeon"). Best of all are Author Forbes's evocations of New England in the four seasons. Her book ends in the late fall: "Crows were out gleaning, looking like blown bits of charred paper. And talking all the time - like crows talk. Far above, the lonely hawk floating. Harvest is over. It is the lone-somest...
...seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass died two days later. The jail, a null affair built of heavy timbers, was forthwith erected, since crime was obviously getting to be a problem. But after 73 years of waiting for more gunfire. Round Rock decided that Sam's visit had been...
...Dead Pigeon by Lenard Kantor is a three-character melodrama that is constructed like a superhighway: the audience is never in any doubt where the play is going; it is beautifully landscaped by Joan Lorring in various stages of undress, and -though everything moves along briskly enough-there is a certain sensation of monotony...
Roger. In Chicago, the day after a thief stole his 37 prize homing pigeons, Fred Semro was happy to find that seven of the birds had returned, then read a note attached to one pigeon's leg: "You'll never see the rest again...