Word: jackdaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I'm Thinking of You (Tommy Sands; Capitol LP). In his salad days, Singer Sands honked and rocked his way to sudden fortune with a voice like a jackdaw's cry. Now at the awkward age-22 -he has renounced rock 'n' roll for balladeering on the theory that "I have matured as a person." His latest album fails to prove that point, but at least it demonstrates that behind the old postnasal drip, a sweetly lyric set of pipes was growing all the time...
...Endore (who, according to his blurb, "reminded his classmates of the young Shelley") solves the problem by arguing that the legends help to reveal the man. He has collected them all into a gigantic bouillabaisse of a book which gives the impression of being organized by an excited jackdaw. It is called a novel, presumably to allow the author to use any colorful incident he chose without the hampering need for accuracy. The fact that Dumas survives Author Endore's treatment is decisive proof that even a bad biography cannot destroy a really great...
Cackle & Croak. With his affectionate patience, Dr. Lorenz has become familiar with the passions of that monogamous little fish, the cichlid. He knows the wild ecstasies of the Siamese fighting fish and the stickleback. He can spell out the intricate class consciousness of jackdaw society, for he has seen a low-ranking female mate with a high-ranking male and assume his place in the social order...