Word: llama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Odyssey. Why has the television western far surpassed the popularity of its previous incarnations in the dime novel, the tent show, the wide screen? Why has it overtaken the space cowboys, the precinct operas and the llama dramas? Says ABC Program Director Thomas W. Moore: "The western is just the neatest and quickest type of escape entertainment, that's all." But few are willing to let it go at that. Parents and professional worriers are concerned about the violence and sadism in the horse opera. Psychoanalysts are looking for sex symbols (all those guns, of course), Oedipal patterns...
...Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble. Like rabbits, Tibetans are pastoral, non-aggressive. Unlike rabbits and Chinese, Tibetans would not score highly in any "survival of the fittest" struggle among cultures. "Our religion is going," our race is going," says Gayalo Thondap, a brother of the Dalai Llama...
Among the foreign delights served for the special Sunday lunch were Drained Crane Brains with Diced Sequoia Leaves from Zanzibar, and Lamprey Slice Floated on Essence of Llama Leaves from the Fiji Islands. The menu advertised Caribbean Delight with Holy Rolls for breakfast today...
...Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy
Toribio and his wife, like others among the half of Peru's 4,000,000 Indians who have accepted the idea of foot covering, ordinarily wear cheap sandals made of llama skin or slabs of old tires. For reasons of poverty or prejudice, the Latin American Indian's sales resistance to anything better in shoes has been as tough as the calluses on his broad feet. Only one salesman ever dented it-and he was fictional, an O. Henry character (Mr. Hemstetter in Cabbages and Kings) who promptly sold out his stock after a clever schemer sprinkled...