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...year of carnival for British Co-Columbia. Vancouver sent invitations all around the world, played host to an army of actors, musicians and athletes in one festival after another. To Queen Elizabeth, the citizens of the province proudly dispatched a 100-ft. totem pole, and the royal family reciprocated by sending Princess Margaret to B.C. to grace the celebrations with her charm. All of this is part of Canada's biggest birthday party: British Columbia is 100 years old, celebrating the day in 1858 when Queen Victoria, who had scarcely heard of the place, designated the land a crown...
...condemn you, who have made me an orphan. You attack the logic of religion and laugh, at cocktail parties, over totem poles and pillars. You dismiss mystics as paranoids and prophets as crackpots. You pride yourselves as Men of Logic when your understanding is mechanical. In your anxiety to reason, you have for gotten how to feel...
...their showers; the mansion's third floor is blocked off ("We're always losing Dominic," says Matilda); Band-aids, next to food and clothing, are the big expense, what with the children falling downstairs or sliding too fast down the bannisters, or falling off the gubernatorial totem pole that stands outside. After dinner and a session of TV-watching, church-going Roman Catholic Mike sings out: "Prayers, everyone, let's say our prayers." He and the youngsters then kneel in a cluster about a big armchair before they are paraded...
...following is the first of a series of articles taken from the Winston Pooh lectures on Myth and Mystery in Modern American Prose delivered last year at Wheat Forest College in Illinois. Mr. Pooh was internationally recognized for his three volume treatise on The Totem-Pole in American Indian Culture...
...Bert Lahr's cannot carry it as far as the corner saloon. Written with an eye on Damon Runyon and a finger in a dictionary of U.S. criminal argot, the play explored a quaint old vein of humor among thieves: Lahr, as a low man on the totem pole of crime, joined another aging juvenile delinquent (Fred Gwynne) to rob an armored car of $1,000,000 just to impress a lady (Mildred Natwick). Playing a sometime short-order cook whose sauces could give a hamburger that certain "jenny-say-kwah," Lahr mugged, pranced, bellowed ("Ngha, ngha, ngha...