Word: totemism
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...directly correlated with the number of anthropomorphic features it possesses." This is recognized by even the youngest children; they are generally the most levelheaded owners and associates of pets, whom they see as fraternal, adventurous and fallible allies, incapable (unlike parents) of scolding or punishing. As Freud noted in Totem and Taboo, children "feel themselves more akin to animals than to their elders." Old people, particularly those living alone, often depend on pets for the companionship and warmth denied them by human society. Some behaviorists argue that the mentally disturbed can be helped by animals -"seeing-heart dogs...
...center of this circle is the totem of Executive privilege?Nixon is ostensibly not protecting himself but his own and his presidential successors' institutional prerogatives. The irony is that the Watergate scandal, and the particular showdown before the Supreme Court, is more dangerous to the presidency than any voluntary concession concerning his privilege would be. By his actions, Nixon has invited a ruling from the highest court that may for the first tune put stated limits on the very immunity he professes to protect...
...North, according to the Museum of Fine Arts (where it continues through May 26), is "the most important exhibition of Native Alaskan art ever assembled." The Tlingit Totem Pole still stands at the top of the grand stairs, and there's a bird whose picture The Crimson printed upside down and the Real Paper printed backwards...
...bird is a Tlingit Indian totem pole--a striking introduction to the museum's current exhibition of American Indian and Eskimo art. This exhibit, which the museum calls "the most important exhibition of Native Alaskan art ever assembled" finally brings ethnic art into the main exhibition halls of a great art museum, a place which, by its quality, it has long deserved...
...year of 1974 turns out to be a fine, small, odd book set in a Canadian Indian village. It was written more than eight years ago, and considering the delay, one might assume that the manuscript, scribbled by some tribal chieftain, had perhaps moldered under a totem pole until discovered by a nosy anthropologist or Royal Canadian Mountie. Not so. The author is an energetic, white-haired American woman, now 72, named Margaret Craven. The history of her book, from benign neglect to some national celebrity, offers wry commentary on the ways of commerce and the world of publishing...