Word: karle
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...Cree and Mandan were among the tribes who lived in high style before the European invaders manifested their destiny. The Indians' chief sources of wealth were the bison and the horse. In 1883 the German explorer and naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied and his Swiss-born companion, Artist Karl Bodmer, traveled among the tribes. The result was Maximilian's diaries, packed with details of Indian life and Bodmer's stunning watercolors. It was a happy marriage of ethnology and art, as the reader is now able to see in this finely produced book...
Take Renee Richards. Karl Marx thought you needed a hammer and sickle to work material changes on "objective conditions," but Renee has proven that a less than lethal dosage of gonadotrophins and a stainless steel blade can do the trick just as nicely. With a single stroke, she revolutionized tennis. Which only goes to show that professional wrestling is the greatest sport on earth...
...wears his sweatshirt inverted, ostensibly to disguise the varsity letter-which, of course, accentuates that which it purports to cover: like men's bikinis." On beards in general: "Men tend to look the same. I have always shuddered at the possibility that, by mistake, St. Peter admitted Karl Marx and barred Johannes Brahms." At times the ironies seem to have been guided by an unseen hand. In his off-watch time, Buckley read Moby Dick. But no whales were sighted, just an unidentified submarine. Buckley also tells of anchoring in an isolated cove in the British Virgin Islands, only...
Anyone who doesn't remember who Karl Sweetan was, stop reading this column immediately...
...Death of the Boogie Woogie. Old-timer Karl Bostic directs Black C.A.S.T. in the Loeb Ex. 64 Brattle Street, November 18-20. Tickets free the day prior to performance at the Loeb Box Office...