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...light but bulky package arrived at the Vatican last week from Alaska, addressed to Pope Pius XI, a surprise gift from hundreds of Catholic Eskimo children. The contents: a large piece of birchbark. Painted on its inner surface was a dog sled carrying nuns and a missionary priest through the main street of Holy Cross Mission, Alaska, towards a primitive rendering of the dome of St. Peter's while a female figure, representing St. Therese, scattered celestial petals from the clouds...
...Language. Introducer C. K. Ogden (author of The Meaning of Meaning) compares Joyce's language to Eskimo, which Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson called the most difficult but most efficient language invented by man. In Eskimo, IGLUPAKULIA means: "The big house which he built for himself and still possesses and which is no longer as good as formerly." Speaking of Joyce's language, says Ogden: "The intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation; the sly, meaty, oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse; even the clangorous calembour, irresponsible and irrepressible, all conjure us to penetrate the night mind of man, that kaleidoscopic recamera of an hypothecated...
There are Eskimo and Tchuktchis Indian villages about every 15 miles along the north Siberian coast where Eielson and Borland presumably floundered. They may be squatting sheltered in a native's snow-drifted skin-&-driftwood house. If so, they did not see or were unable to signal a searching plane which flew from Teller, base of relief operations, to the Nanuk. The plane is still at the ship, held down by dismaying weather, scant fuel...
...would be hard to find a story that made less use of her talents. After a white trader has persuaded her to run away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick the customers' pockets but speak with horror of a friend of theirs caught smoking. They dislike Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting...
...Hoovers) with an introduction from D. C. Kok, a fellow-townsman. Their names were respectively Southboro Sunny and Southboro Markham, children of International Champion Southboro Savanna, English setter. The third visitor came without a card. His ancestry and antecedents were a mystery, but he was a handsome Eskimo sled...