Word: caveness
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Exhaling cigaret smoke through his nose, a slight man, tough as raffia, brown as leather, leaned over a collapsible campstool tugging at the laces of his chamois slippers. Into the concrete cave of his dressing-room crept the sound of remote applause. A distant rain of handclapping drifted in, and many smells-a realistic mixture of axle-graphite, new timber, horse sweat, ropes, giraffe dung. His laces pulled and fastened, the wiry little man stood up and flexed his fingers, appraised their steely strength. A buzzer sounded from behind a dented locker, a girl's voice called out with...
...recalls such things, and how Bismarck in his forsaken years had only dogs to love and mourn, how Kipling bid ". . . you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear." Phantom has taken his place among shades. The day is denied its white stone, for one remembers, not CAVE CANEM, but St. Bernard's "Qui Meamat, amet et canem meum...
Sapient Destroyers-Mild-mannered. quietly humorous, far removed from the cave man is Paleontologist William King Gregory (Columbia, American Museum of Natural History) whose discourse on mankind's past and future was a high spot. Excerpts...
...traditional house is an artificed cave. The traditional bathtub is an artificed pool. Buckminster Fuller has replaced these "feudal and finite" properties with what he calls "services." Dwellers in the dymaxion house will bathe with an airpressure hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap, in a compressed fog over their skin. Little water, no bathtub, no faucets or sinks, will be needed. Toilets will be dry, a machine converting sewage into methane gas to provide the house's light and power. Air will be conditioned, making bedclothes unnecessary. All machinery will fit into the central duraluminum mast...
With spring's arrival he unearthed himself, discovered other cave-dwellers in the frozen land. Fast learning the local lore he quarried himself another home and, besides providing for his own wants, worked up a profitable business on the side. Not a tree grows on those islands; but the summer influx of gold-miners and coal-miners must have wood. Trader Welzl wangled wood from whaling boats, finally imported provisions from Alaska. Soon he was rich enough to buy a $100,000 share in a trading boat. Tales of his adventures in New Siberia and elsewhere, an account...