Word: totem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field long dominated by men. The works ranged from early representational carvings like Contemplative Figure (1928), a sensual but reposeful torso and head, to latter-day exercises in pure form such as Pastorale (1953), a chunk of gracefully carved marble pierced by strangely undulating tunnels. Another new work, Totem, was an imposing abstraction in wood and swirling hollows...
...Benton's totem pole is President Dwight Robbins, an ex-diving champion who splashes boyish charm over well-heeled alumnae. "Not to have given him what he asked, they felt, would have been to mine the bridge that bears the train that carries the supply of this year's Norman Rockwell Boy Scout calendars." The dragon of the story is Gertrude Johnson, a novelist who teaches a creative-writing course. "For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren...
...cheap Japanese imitations of tribal handicrafts. From the Southwest, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service have received complaints about Japanese versions of Navaho beadwork, Zuni jewelry, Hopi kachina dolls (painted wooden dolls representing Indian deities). From the Northwest have come reports of made-in-Japan totem poles and ivory carvings. The Japanese imitations sell for as little as one-fifth Indian prices. Up until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted in keeping with the Eisenhower Administration...
...layman in the field, many of the Museum's exhibits verge upon the spectacular. Twenty-five foot totem poles dwarf the onlooker in the hall of Indian ethnology; in the Bowditch Hall of Middle American culture, huge casts of Mayan, statuary tower two floors in height. On Peabody's top floor, the skull of Mt. Carmel Man, the only Paleolithic man on exhibit in the United States, sits staring moodily at his bones in case across the hall. Not far away stands the Museum's ample collection of shrunken and mummified human beads, calculated to surprise even the most hardened...
Like the low man on a totem pole, Ozzie, 46, carries most of the load. He produces and directs the TV show, edits and cuts the film, polishes the scenarios ("I make the words sound real and natural"), keeps his sponsors (Hotpoint and Listerine) contented, and, in his free time, lectures his sons on the Eagle Scout concept of honor or takes them on for practice sessions of football or basketball. On the show itself. Ozzie's character lacks the overhead drive and adding-machine efficiency that he displays in real life. As in most other TV family dramas...