Word: pigeons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knowing what? Picking up clues or philosophic crumbs like a capriciously fed pigeon, the reader will learn that Stephen is married to a beautiful wife whom he loves, that he has two children, and that he does his job more or less well. He is also 40 years old, has problems of identity, and, more specifically, "can't keep his hands off the girl students." It is not really his hands but his irresponsible voyeurism that is Stephen's trouble...
...Westminster Abbey's statues and memorial have been newly cleaned and painted, and the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is undergoing a $420,000 polishing that will return it to the splendor envisioned by Sir Christopher Wren-and, hopefully, keep it that way, since electric-shock pigeon deterrents are being added. London Bridge is falling down, and plans have been drawn for a $6,700,000 replacement...
...charm is that the old man did not consciously set out to recount history, but only to leave his descendants a straightforward personal account of all he saw and did. And that was considerable. One of Meriwether's earliest memories, for example, is of the massacre at Pigeon Roost, Kentucky, when Indian followers of Tecumseh slaughtered 24 white settlers. He was only eleven, but his father sent him off on horseback to warn the Kentucky countryside that the Indians were on the rampage. At 14, he rode 100 miles in 48 hours carrying military dispatches. He trekked...
...Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris, who tried to veto the Calder stabile last spring because "art is supposed to transmit thought. Unless it does, I don't get it." But the art certainly transmits Calder, and he ventured the thought that his vertically planed piece was a lot more "pigeon-proof" than the giant Reclining Figure by Henry Moore, installed in a reflecting pool near by. "Poor Henry," said Calder. "I do hate to think of his sculpture out there under all those pigeons...
...author, who earlier wrote The Great Auk, laments the fate of the passenger pigeon, whose species numbered in the millions before man trapped, bludgeoned and shot the bird into extinction...