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Each time, the pair leaves a minatory message signed AHIAR deploring mistreatment of animals. Press and public think them some sort of crank offshoot of the IRA, but the initials come straight from William Blake: "A Rob in Redbreast in a Cage/ Puts all Heaven in a Rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking of Angels | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...narrow unless the Apostles' Creed is narrow. Some of our critics want to drag us into the old static framework. If that were done, the Young Life campaign wouldn't work any better than what they are doing. Far too many pastors talk about daffodils and robin redbreast. We believe it is sinful to bore kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Teen-Age Church? | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Even the spring social openers were disrupted. In Lyman Laboratory students bemoaned the cancellation of the Monday afternoon tea-and-cake session with the Physics staff. At the Lampoon offices the annual robin-redbreast hunt was postponed until the thaw...

Author: By F. W. Byron jr., | Title: Biggest Blizzard of Year Paralyzes University With Two Feet of Snow | 3/20/1956 | See Source »

...American robin redbreast (named mistakenly by the English settlers after the real robin in England) is a thrush. He is a large bird with a dull red breast and he struts across the lawns with the characteristic thrush walk. . . . The American squirrel ... is a large grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Robins, Squirrels, Rats, Pigs | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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