Word: snowman
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...flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas' Abominable Snowman, dabbled in Hindu mysticism, organized world peace conferences, spent freely for studies on everything from genetics to extrasensory perception, and the 100,000 oddball gadgets that would-be inventors poured into his Institute of Inventive Research...
...year boss. A herpetologist who once missed a TV show because a rattler bit him on the hand during rehearsal. Perkins has directed Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo since 1944. accompanied Sir Edmund Hil lary in a fruitless Himalayan hunt for the Abominable Snowman in 1960. St. Louis should prove almost as lively. Among the charges passed on by retiring (after 40 years) Zoo Director George P. Vierhel-ler, 79: a troupe of dancing elephants, a joint lion-tiger-leopard training act, and Mr. Moke, the talking chimp (com plete vocabulary: "mamma...
...Abominable Snowman. In the work of Allen Ginsberg, the only projective poet who gives evidence of important talent, excrement is of the poetic essence. After eight years on the bum, Ginsberg sat down at 29 and wrote Howl, a sort of abstract-expressionist Waste Land that established him overnight as "the Abominable Snowman of modern poetry." (Like that's the most, man.) Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind. Moloch...
...anti-French extremists only if the negotiations were hermetically sealed off from newsmen. As a meeting place Joxe chose Les Rousses, a crowded but unfashionable French ski resort near the Swiss border. There the French team took over the government-owned Chalet du Yeti (the Cottage of the Abominable Snowman). The Algerians, quartered across the border at a lakeside resort, used different cars and routes each day to attend the sessions, driving straight into a garage that connected with the conference room. All the delegates disguised themselves as skiers in stretch pants and dark glasses, strapped two pairs of skis...
...reader may feel that he is no more likely to run across a PATHETIC FALLACY than an abominable snowman. But he will be wrong. The term was originated by English Critic John Ruskin "to describe the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects," and has been described as "a confusion of actual meteorological conditions with the weather in the soul." Any moviegoer or TV watcher-dimly aware that acts of love seem to occur in the presence of windblown oatfields or sexily curling surf, and that crises seldom take place without timpani and brass on the sound track...