Word: warden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MacKenzie Thorpe has been stalking through the Lincolnshire marshes for most of his 62 years. Hunter, guide, marsh warden, bird advisory officer, conservationist, naturalist and lecturer, he is a legendary figure in British wildlife circles. He is called Kenzie the Wild-Goose Man. He is also the Owl Man, the Weasel Man, the Finch Man−a caller of the wild who can lure a hare from its hole or a baby seal onto the beach. Thorpe can mimic 88 different bird calls, ranging from the swallow's high titter to the low cluck of the red-legged partridge...
Pluralism is a common way of obscuring power relations. A warden doesn't have power over his prisoner: they just have different roles within the prison system. The reasoning is that women fill different roles in society so they must be different. And if they are different they can have their own colleges and shouldn't be at Harvard. Women's Liberation explains how social roles have prescribed women's behavior, not vice versa. Dean Peterson does not even pretend that Harvard and Radcliffe are separate but equal, just separate and different. He wants to maintain...
...real world of politics and treason. Few American readers will feel Gallic tremors of empathy when Papillon sits on Dreyfus' very bench as he plots escape from Devil's Island, or when, in a Hugo-like episode, he risks his life trying to save a warden's tiny daughter fallen among sharks...
...Downey's new movie, Pound, the personae are dogs, but the theme is man. Imprisoned, a pack of canines -in human form-are under sentence of death unless an owner comes to claim them. Their warden is a uniformed black woman, neither malign nor forgiving, just carrying out orders. Round and round the dogs pad and yammer, seeking a nonexistent reprieve, like Sartre characters on Gainesburgers...
George Trevelyan, grandson of the famous historian, warden of Shropshire Adult College near Shrewsbury, and later to Music Experts George and Mary Firth. The three set up a fund to permit Rosemary to give up her job as a cook and devote herself full time to the composers. Other musicians-among them Michael Tippett and Hepzibah Menuhin-became interested. The BBC asked her to make television appearances. Recently. Philips Records recorded a collection of her old-masterly music. It will be released in the U.S. this month as A Musical Seance...