Word: birde
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...years ago, at the exhibition of the John Quinn Collection in Manhattan, old ladies and dilettantes gathered round an object, gaping, making a murmur of "Is it a bird? If it isn't, what is it? Whatever it is, is it art?" It was tall, shiny, spindling, like a magnification of an exclamation point, like a Freudian symbol. Manufactured by famed Sculptor Constantin Brancusi of Rumania, it was titled, with a supreme disregard of appearance, with an arrogant, baffling simplicity, "The Bird...
...birds were not collected by Dr. Rock himself, but by a skilled native bird hunter who accompanied him in his botanical explorations of the region around Tibet from 1924 to 1927 for the Arnold Arboretum. The collection includes birds ranging all the way from humming-birds to bearded eagles with a wing spread of ten feet. The region from which these birds have been sent is largely unexplored by Europeans, as the fierce native tribes repel all intrusions of foreigners, and Dr. Rock succeeded only because of his long experienced with the Tibetan tribes...
Children are colloquially and good-humoredly called "kids," not from the undesirable characteristics of young goats, but rather from their unquenchable instinct to play and frolic; just as the eagle is accepted as an American emblem, not because of the fact that it is a bird of prey, but rather because of its admirable characteristics, such as strength, size, and keenness of vision...
After uttering these words, Sculptor Epstein, iconoclast, inconoplast, famed for "Rima," a bird sculpture* in honor of famed Naturalist W. H. Hudson, boarded a boat for the U. S., where, it is rumored, he intends to live. On his arrival, he planned to survey an exhibition in which appears his Madonna and Child (my greatest sculpture and my best"); then he will go to Buffalo, "where they have a lively interest...
call of any bird...