Word: cocks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...golden call of a trumpet blazed last week in a rococo Manhattan theatre. On the stage, blonde, hollow-cheeked Dancer Tatiana Riabouchinska, in the blazing gold costume of the cock in Coq d'Or, soared in the grand jete, the ballet's classic leap. On other nights, when the stage was ranked with silk tights and tutus (tarlatan ballet skirts), pretty, plump-cheeked Irina Baronova and dark, lissome Tamara Toumanova took the spotlight for effortless spins, whirls, leaps...
...COCK OF HEAVEN-Elder Olson -Macmillan...
...mostly crab grass at that-is a juicy writer's thesis that seems incapable of being squeezed dry. One of the latest literati to draw blood from this cosmic lemon is Elder Olson, a young, Byronic-looking assistant professor of English at Illinois Institute of Technology. His The Cock of Heaven is a long poem about the irremediable genesis, incorrigible exodus and appalling exeunt of the Goddamned, salvation-proof children of Adam. For purely literary excitement, it should rank as the poetic book-of-the-year...
According to a legend recounted by the lyth-Century poet and ecclesiastic. John Donne, the cock that crew thrice at Peter's denial of Christ...
There are 1,500,000 archery addicts in the U. S. Most of these toxophilites are content with target shooting or flight shooting (for distance). But some 15,000 are Cock Robin killers: they want to kill something with their bows & arrows...