Word: pigeoning
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...have seen her, offstage as well as on, are likely to disagree. When an errant pigeon flew in her apartment window, what could she do but ask, "Any messages?" When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled hot soup down her neck, her retort was, of course, "Never darken my Dior again." Miss Lillie, in fact, has long since passed into a sort of performers' nirvana and become a model for zany aunts and dowagers. She was, the various authors have told her, the inspiration for Mary Poppins, Auntie Mame and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit...
...simply stated that he did not want to speak with Herrnstein--and Herrnstein was forced to speak in another room. Reports of a plan by the University Action Group of Princeton to bar Herrnstein from leaving a room where he was to speak on "The Visual World of the Pigeon"--unless he agreed to answer questions on his I.Q. article--caused Herrnstein to cancel the lecture...
...Kissinger's chop means "Henry Carrier Pigeon.") Kissinger has been the American impresario for the China trip. But in Peking this week, he stays discreetly in the background physically, saving himself for long sessions with the President. He has a remarkable facility for deferring to the President in any public setting. The word is that Secretary of State William Rogers is handling the detailed negotiations for people-to-people contacts that will come out of the visit, while the President and Kissinger direct overall policy. It is something of a slight for Rogers, who has not even been taken...
...Princeton Psychology Colloquium Committee, which invited Herrnstein, schedules weekly speeches and discussions primarily for advanced psychology students. Herrnstein was to talk on the "Visual World of the Pigeon...
...activities in response to Professor Herrnstein's article seem clearly to be coercive in intent and effect. Placards in and outside his classroom saying "Fight Racism--Fire Herrnstein" and "Pigeon Man", chanting outside his office, demonstrations demanding he be dismissed from the Faculty obviously are not meant to convince him or others of the mistakes in his theories. These tactics and others, such as interrupting his lectures with questions irrelevant to the subject matter under discusion--though within the rights of those engaging in them--undeniably create an atmosphere of tension in Herrnstein's teaching and personal life outside...