Word: candlefish
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...Boiled Candlefish. The device that transforms the book into fiction is rude enough. Everything that Margaret Craven swiftly experienced and loved about the Kwakiutls is gradually learned by a young Anglican vicar, Mark Brian. He is fatally ill but does not know it, and has been sent to the village by his bishop to "learn enough of life to be ready to die." Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily...
Star of the show was handsome, seven-year-old Gerard Darrow, who, on the Quiz Kids' first program, startled listeners with the information that a "candlefish is a small fish of the smelt family, used by the Pacific Coast Indians for its oil. The oil burns readily and very brightly and has a terrible odor." Runner-up in popularity to Gerard on the two programs so far is 13-year-old Van Dyke Tiers. Pacing right along, last week Van Dyke showed his speed by fully explaining PK4 (a chess term). Thirteen-year-old Mary Ann Anderson, a high...
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