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...India-ink drawings on view in Baltimore represent nightmarish characters and situations that fascinate and disturb simultaneously. In Dancer's Whirl, Toledano presents a ball spun by two spidery hands, symbolic of "the world in its present condition of frenzied agitation." Two Half Moons, or The Disturbed Camel, sets against the night sky a haloed camel being worshipped by three Arabs who look rather like melting vanilla cones. Guardians of the Primal, which the Baltimore Museum bought, shows a bird-faced man doing a minuet with a man-faced bird; between them on a string stretches a fanged serpent...
Since then, Harry and Ann Morrison have been a team, traveling the world together. In all that time, she has never missed a trip, has whirled over the Canadian mountains in helicopters, jounced over Afghan trails on a Bactrian camel. Ann Morrison was one of the last women to leave Wake Island before the Japanese attack (MK had been building an airfield). She has ordered supplies for camps, kept accounts, filled in at the cookhouse when the cook was drunk...
...regular formalities of the meetings consist, of course, in the sampling of cheese. The members taste two or three different varieties at each meeting. "We're looking forward to the day on which we can have our first sample of camel's milk...
...Gadein was a stringbean of a Negro tribesman, simple and guileless as a calf, awkward as a young camel and endlessly tolerant of abuse. He wore an iron ring through his nose, and around his waist a belt of lizard skins and tinkling bells. His father Abu Zed, was the potbellied chief of three African villages, and he was thoroughly disgusted with Gadein. Smaller boys outran him and outfought him. The village girls and, indeed, the whole village, laughed at him. "Here comes the lunatic!" the young men would roar. On the night of the great feast, Abu Zed publicly...
...army, of course, Gadein is about as useful as a slipped disk. He marches with a loping camel's gait, he drops his rifle in formation, he innocently lets a knavish buddy borrow and sell his equipment. Trained to become a truck driver, he smashes up a couple of vehicles, runs another over a cliff. Primitive that he is, he fervently worships his tire pressure gauge as a handy, portable...