Word: pachyderm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pampered Pachyderm. Hannibal had to fend off hostile rock throwers; Hoyte and Jumbo had only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...
...likes to give money," says Chatô. "Brazilians like big things, and everybody knows I'm doing big things for Brazil." Few of his countrymen dare or care to quibble; one Brazilian industrialist who balked found himself labeled in Chatô's press as "a bandit, looter, pachyderm, hippopotamus, Berber filibuster, Barbary pirate." Typical contributors: Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli, Banker (and former Ambassador to Washington) Walther Moreira Salles, Industrialist Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari (occasional playmate of Linda Christian). Chatô himself is the most generous giver, but seems almost ashamed to admit that he ever had to reach into...
Tusk Force. To most, Morel is half-crazed, a crank at best, his pro-pachyderm activities comic and futile. But Gary wonderfully evokes what the elephants mean to Morel, so that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...
...ranking clown. TV Comic Sammy Hogarth, played by Mickey Rooney as if the part were fitted to him in Savile Row, is the man who gives the chuckle to TV's 40,000,000 chuckleheads, but to those who know him he is a "lumbering pachyderm with the face of a pig, the smell of a skunk, the appetite of a tomcat and the voice of Joe Miller." He has a tapeworm hunger for the attention, laughter and love of 40 million people, an insatiable craving to receive all the gifts he himself is incapable of giving...
...Novelist Musil is often sardonically effective. The human soul, he writes, "is simply what curls up and hides when there is any mention of algebraic series." And "at night a man has only a nightshirt on, and what comes next under that is the character." With a kind of pachyderm playfulness, Novelist Musil encourages his characters to blow themselves up-the better to measure their hollowness...