Word: tuft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the short mating season, a male beetle spends most of its time scuttling through the herbage searching out nubile females. When he finds one, he races in front of her, blocks her way and offers his tuft of hair as if it were a box of candy. The female almost al ways accepts the gift, leaning on the male while she nibbles the baited hairs...
...Tuft's baseball team will enter Splinter Stadium today feeling both hopeful and honored. Playing their first contest of the year, the Jumbos have been entertaining sweet dreams of ending six years of Crimson hegemony...
...left by her depilatory"). Undigested lumps of Marx and Freud swallowed in youth appear to catalyze these prosy nightmares. Sex, particularly, is constantly talked of, snickered at and attempted-and, of course, it is always unpleasant and unsuccessful. Fiedler's specialty is the small, perfect detail, like the tuft of thick, sweaty hair the narrator spies curling from the heroine's decolletage. Jewish loathing of Jewishness is. of course, a standard nasty story theme, and Fiedler's Jews - malicious caricatures be side whom Fagin would resemble King David - treat their religion as if it were a particularly...
...ambiguity of Tuft's position is that while in all of its advertising and publicity it represents itself as a professional company, it is not. It is staffed almost entirely by college students, many of whom are taking summer drama courses. Yet it tries to produce a professional slate on a professional rehearsal schedule. It is not, unfortunately, quite that good...
...lacked either a British or American sense of humor. In the end, he came to feel guilty when he found that the creator of Leatherstocking had a reputation back home of "trying night and day to live with dukes and duchesses." He and his family were not really "tuft-hunters," he protested, adding that he had no desire to marry his four daughters to Europeans...