Word: totem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice. Totem poles, characteristic of British Columbia, are also made in the East Indies. A common pattern in both regions has human figures alternating on the pole with figures of fish or birds. Dr. Ekholm showed the Americanists carved sticks (miniature totem poles) from both Sumatra and British Columbia and challenged them to tell him which came from where. They confessed that the designs were so similar that they could only guess whether Asiatic or American Indians made them...
Washington correspondents know smart, stocky James Arthur Wechsler as one of the ablest reporters in the capital. But his name was well down on the totem pole of the New York Post Home News (circ. 380,000); he was one of two "associates" to Washington Bureau Chief Charles Van Devander. Last week, at 33, Jimmy Wechsler slid all the way up the pole to the editorship...
...alone provided dozens of provocative contrasts. From such hard-to-make and hard-to-take abstractions as David Smith's tortuous steel Cello Player (the work of a onetime war-plant welder), visitors could turn to such literary hardware as Mitzi Solomon's aluminum Family of Man Totem. Among the best of the relatively representational items were Alfeo Faggi's leggy, high-breasted Eva, Koren Der Harootian's Slave, Burr Miller's classic marble nude La Victoire, and William Steig's tiny, self-effacing Elderly...
Jazz is the feature at the Savoy, which offers Bob Wilber this week, for those who want to sit at little tables and strain their careerism. Tops in the out-on-the-highway-field are the Totem Pole and the Meadows...
Lacking Maldarelli's subtlety in sculpture, Mitzi makes up for it in wit, a wealth of ideas, and a willingness to be laughed at even when she is dead-earnest. The hit of her show was a model for a 114-ft. Family of Man Totem that she thought would look well in front of the U.N. building. ("People told me I was a fool to try it, but I said if I wanted to be diplomatic I wouldn't be a sculptor.") Among the most entertaining exhibits was a bulbous Woman-Shaped Vessel seated in a bird...