Word: squirrels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shortest and fastest-moving tales ever written, her pastel-tinted miscreant wiggled under a forbidden fence for a lawless day in Mr. McGregor's garden and wriggled forever into the lives of millions. That story was followed by a score of other children's books, tales of Squirrel Nut-kin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittle-mouse, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and-generally recognized by Potter connoisseurs as her masterpiece-The Tailor of Gloucester...
...unusual undercurrents. Charlie was trained to use guns as soon as he was old enough to hold them?and so were his brothers. "I'm a fanatic about guns," says his father, Charles A., 47. "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns." Charlie could plug a squirrel in the eye by the time he was 16, and in the Marine Corps he scored 215 points out of a possible 250, winning a rating as a sharpshooter, second only to expert. In the Marines, though, he also got busted from corporal to private and sentenced to 30 days...
Stakhanovite Squirrel. The Manhattan liberal and the Vermont Tory have almost nothing else in common. Nor is Javits exactly a spiritual heir of the late Senator whose office he now occupies. Suite 326 of the Old Senate Office Building used to be Robert A. Taft's lair, but its new appointments scarcely reflect the tastes of the man who was known as "Mr. Republican." Busts of John F. Kennedy and Albert Einstein adorn the current occupant's office. So does a Larry Rivers impressionistic landscape of Manhattan's Second Avenue, a scene so remote from the pastoral America of Taft...
...legislator, Javits resembles a Stakhanovite squirrel. He is a member of five committees and, at latest count, 19 subcommittees, and the chances are that he knows more about what is going on in each of them than any other member, including the chairman. Michigan's Romney refers to him as "the busiest man in the Senate," and the label fits. Much of his time goes into what he calls "our unseen work": the unheralded, rarely acknowledged chore of shepherding a bill through subcommittee, committee, and finally the full chamber...
...also liked to dine off heron, coot en cocotte, boar and sautéed squirrel ("An exquisite taste"). At times a puckish humor overcame Lautrec. His recipe for leg of lamb, for instance, required "a glacier like the Wildstrubel. Kill a young lamb from the high Alps at around 3,000 meters, during September. Cut out the leg and let it hang for three or four weeks. It should be eaten raw with horse-radish...