Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SOUL OF THE WOLF by Michael...
...ethologist, and a leader in the growing pack of natural scientists who have lately given wolves a good name. He has been raising wolves and studying them for years. In earlier books like Behavior of Wolves, Dogs and Related Canids, Fox presented the facts. The Soul of the Wolf is something else, an illustrated valentine to Fox's four-footed friends, and a moral message for another endangered species, man. The valentine is marvelous, the exhortation overblown. By learning about wolves, Fox insists, man can learn about the mysterious intricacies of nature, and thus be encouraged to cease...
Koch has a coterie of faithful friends. Many, like Dan Wolf, a founding editor of the Village Voice, date back to his days as a young reformer. During his last campaign, Koch appeared frequently with Bess Myerson, 1945 Miss America and now a Democratic senatorial candidate. But they are just friends, not a twosome. Koch often has female aides fill in as his dates for important functions...
...they decide how many movie projectors the science department needs. Right now, liberals out-number Independents 5-2, but acrimony is still the general rule. Duehay chairs the committee, but its leading figure, who garnered more votes than any school committee candidate in history last election, is probably Alice Wolf...
...that moment, Caroline wants to get this attractive intellectual to bed. Ivan is in no hurry; he charms and tantalizes her with food, wine and graceful erudition. Rather than toss coins in a fountain, he guides her to the Campidoglio to see the caged she-wolf, symbol of the mythical beast that suckled Romulus and Remus. The animal, "glowering from slate-gray eyes that looked at once treacherous and ready to weep," suddenly howls in their faces...