Word: totemic
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...sail past. Jason sails on to get the Golden Fleece. He needs this gelt pelt in order to claim the throne of Thessaly, but it is watched over by the Hydra, as disgusting a monster as ever writhed and roared on the screen. Hydra has more heads than a totem pole, but brave Jason whacks it dead and snags the Fleece (which looks like a Beverly Hills bath...
Seattle restaurants are crowded, hotels have enjoyed 90% occupancy all summer -and motels en route, as far away as Butte, Mont., are usually full. Last week sales of Seattle department stores were up 22% from a year ago, and not alone from selling souvenir totem poles...
...fairs, where people may be willing to learn about the latest science but otherwise want to play. But at the Seattle World's Fair last week there were six art shows. Two of the shows are spotty catchalls of paintings since 1950. Three others are specialties: the totem poles and sculptures of Pacific Northwest Indians; a show of Oriental jades and porcelains; a small gallery of Seattle Artist Mark Tobey's "white writing" abstractions. Seattle's most ambitious effort is its Masterpieces at the Fair...
...wards. "The one thing you notice." says Edmund Cummings, head of the Catholic Relief Service's resettlement division, "is their willingness to work. They just want a job, whether it be as a porter or a dishwasher. They know they have to start at the bottom of the totem pole...
...hard-boiled woman reporter publicizes Teawhit, drawing crowds of bumptious tourists, and con men stage a carnival and a rodeo-cheap shows that fake what once was real and vital. In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. Little Buckety dies when he falls off a bronco at the rodeo. Author Leahy's Indians prove too willing victims of civilization. But between the indifferent sea and the mountains, the Indians and little Jerrod eke out a few moments of great tenderness...