Word: otterness
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Gone With the Otter. Because the Northwest Indians worked in perishable wood, horn and fiber, few of their surviving carved objects are more than 150 years old. But ironically, this probably is no great loss. Initial contact with the white man, which spelled cultural disaster elsewhere, had a tonic effect on the avid, acquisitive fisheaters of the Northwest. The steel tools they got in trading started a great, final flowering of the traditions of wood sculpture that had been slowly evolving for centuries. Its most spectacular achievement: the giant totem pole that emerged within a century from the small carved...
...Otter Uses. By no means all the thousands of patients at a hospital like Manteno are fit to live in the wards. At any one time, hundreds are hospitalized with every disease in the book. Their plight had long been a nightmare to Dr. William J. Gallagher. Chlorpromazine to him has seemed like the answer to a prayer. Agitated patients who previously could not be kept quiet without undesirably heavy doses of barbiturates now rest comfortably. And, more important, they stop resisting the medical or surgical treatment that they need. After operations, they allow surgical wounds to heal...
...shiny paperback called Six Great Modern Short Novels may be disconcerted to discover that it actually contains six great modern short novels. Ordinarily, he may be no more likely to buy the hard-cover editions of these works than he would be to go shopping for a pack of otter hounds or a brocade waistcoat. But if he reads this volume, undeterred by the crepitation of bursting glue from the spine, he will have exposed himself to more first-class writing than can be found on the entire 1954 fiction list of U.S. and British publishers...
...knowledge of French and Spanish in a matter of days. He can imitate someone precisely after watching him for two minutes. He almost never answers the phone in his own voice, usually convinces the caller that he is someone else. His sense of humor is as graphic as an otter's. One day a woman columnist walked up to him and said in a sugary voice: "Why, you look like everybody else!" Marlon stared at her for a moment in silence, then turned without a word to the nearest corner and stood on his head...
...June 28 story on sea otters: incredible as it may seem, America owes its freedoms today partly to the undoing of the sea otter . . . Theirs were the pelts that lured the Russians to Alaska and California a few centuries ago. The Russians pulled up stakes here only because the vanishing of the sea otter made their stay unprofitable. Who knows what the course of history might have been...