Word: totem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kevin!" called someone as Biff passed by the Chinese totem pole in front of Boylston Hall. "Kevin...
...CRIMSON, photographers have the best opportunity for their works to be seen by a college audience, but they usually stick close to the photo-journalism dictated by the news page. Despite finding inferior reproduction of their work on newsprint and being low men on the editorial totem poll, photographers seem satisfied with being on hand for big news events and being tapped by national media for prints...
...said Reynolds, "was the bagman in this thing from beginning to end. The bagman is the man pushed around for having been the medium ... I was low man on the totem pole." Of the $35,000, Reynolds said, he kept $10,000 for himself, and "Bobby told me that $15,000 was to go for the presidential campaign and the other $10,000 was to go for political purposes as he and Mr. McCloskey saw fit-mostly Bobby." Reynolds said that Baker further told him to "stick the money in a bank you don't ordinarily use, so those...
...HORACE) C. (for CLIFFORD) WESTERMANN, 42, is a Los Angeles-born rambler who usually turns out carpenter's daydreams consisting of mirrors and precision mitering. His work at the Whitney is a drum-shaped totem of wall-to-wall carpeting. Says he: "I don't know why I named it The Plush. If I liked analysis, I'd be a writer...
Johns's followers even go so far as to see in them the transubstantiation of the familiar, a totem made from artistic taboo...