A resolute bird-hater of Englewood, N.J. found that a pair of English sparrows had entered a couple of apertures in an air-conditioner under his bedroom window, and were noisily putting together a nest.
The New Yorker, August 7 , 1954P. 19 A resolute bird-hater of Englewood, N.J. found that a pair of English sparrows had entered a couple of apertures in an air-conditioner under his bedroom window, and were noisily putting together a nest.
By M. Maynard and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, August 7 , 1954P. 19 A resolute bird-hater of Englewood, N.J. found that a pair of English sparrows had entered a couple of apertures in an air-conditioner under his bedroom window, and were noisily putting together a nest.
Our basis for this conclusion is a recent dispatch to the Times on the industrial melanism… Comment on the industrial melanism of lepidoptera according to an article on the subject in "Moths," by E. B. Ford, director of the Genetics Laboratory… A resolute bird-hater of Englewood, N.J. found that a pair of English sparrows had entered a couple of apertures in an air-conditioner under his bedroom….
Indeed, there are many glimpses of Mr. Cohen in the group's baleful guitar sweeps and the singer Elizabeth Ziman's mewled devastation; at her best, she also sounds as delicately resolute as the bird on the wire.
When Rochester first meets Jane, he calls her a "curious" sort of caged bird, "a vivid, restless, resolute" one.
He seemed untroubled at the thought of an amateur having ended the bird's life, and he was resolute on the best way to cook her.
They are ghost-birds, emblems of self-devouring introspection and resolute survival, of accepting that "At least the grief I felt was my own making".
It will advance the age of universal harmony if we practice shleimut with resolute determination: "If you fulfill the law of kindness to birds, you will fulfill also the law of freeing the slaves... and you will thereby hasten the advent of the coming messiah" (Deuteronomy Rabbah 6 7).
But Leong remains resolute.
