Word: sentient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slatternly flutter of wings, the voice of hypocrite coo, the unspeakable filth-such are the marks of the city pigeon, that most evil and cunning of birds. Fully a generation ago, a sentient woman, the Sappho of her age, sounded the alarm: "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Yet, despite this warning, the era of appeasement of these feathered spongers has continued...
...writers as Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Cornelia Otis Skinner (Nuts in May), Sally Benson (Junior Miss) and Phyllis Mc-Ginley, a Larchmont neighbor and close friend, whose light verse parallels, to some extent, the everyday materials of Jean Kerr's prose.-But Phyllis McGinley is a deeper, more sentient writer to whom humor is seldom an end in itself...
...series of graduated stages." Koestler erroneously thinks that the "Christian ascetic mortifies his body to hasten its return to dust."* This, he holds, at least has the merit of directness over the yogi's "prodigious detour. He must build up his body into a superefficient, super-sentient instrument of self-annihilation...