Word: totem
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...Greek drama or Freudian apocrypha; “There was something primitive about it now, this woman-on-woman violence, as though… Pegeen were a magical composite of shaman, acrobat, and animal. It was as if she were wearing a mask on her genitals, a weird totem mask, that made her into what she was not supposed...
...this is Sarawak, Malaysia - not Missouri. Belaga's Main Bazaar is a row of careworn early 20th century Chinese shophouses. Between the stores and the town's stone jetty stands a giant wooden hornbill, perched on a carved totem pole, missing a wing, paint peeling on its sun-bleached casque. From the kampung a couple of blocks away floats a muezzin's soulful maghrib, mingling in the twilight with the putter of Yamaha motors on the longboats crawling their way up the Batang Rajang, Malaysia's longest river. For hundreds of years, this was one of Sarawak's most vital...
...lower-income workers into account. At an institution in which values such as diversity, sustainability, and public service—none of them “core” to Harvard’s educational mission—nonetheless inhabit the niche of respected priorities, where on the totem pole do we place the struggles of Harvard’s least fortunate...
...life, Sara Jane Olson was a doting, upper-class soccer mom who drove a Plymouth minivan and was a dynamite gourmet cook. In another, she was a terrorist-and a totem of the age of violent radicalism that erupted during the 1970s. Olson - nee Kathleen Ann Soliah, the infamous Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive - was released Tuesday from a California state prison, seven years after pleading guilty to participating in a deadly bank robbery and planting pipe bombs under police cars...
...Club sports provide both opportunities and limitations for those wishing to participate in lower intensity or competition. They allow one to become best friends with Lavietes, Jordan, and Murr, while simultaneously getting barred from Palmer-Dixon and Dillon. However, even with the low rung on the Harvard athletic totem pole, club sports provide an extraordinary outlet for non-varsity students...