Word: totemism
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Cotton said that he expects Derek Bok, Harvard's next President, to be sympathetic toward the Ed School. "In the past, because the Ed School is more or less at the bottom of the totem pole of reputation around here, it hasn't received the sort of support it could have used," Cotton said. "But Bok appears very interested in what the Ed School is about and what...
...interpretation. The first, a selection from Frazer's Golden Bough, describes a mythic religion in which the priest-king, to gain his office, must slay the old priest-king, and then in turn be on his guard against his successor, who will slay him. The second, from Freud's Totem and Taboo, relates the phenomenon of the young men in the primal horde, who, after destroying the totem/father, whom they perceive as an obstacle to sexual fulfillment, feel guilt at the destructive act, and a resurgence of affection. From this springs the taboo against parricide, fratricide, and, eventually, murder...
...Local Totem. Superficially, I.V. still has the old hippie beguilement. Barefoot boys and braless girls pedal past on bicycles, mill joyously on the streets, hang around the local totem-an American flag-topped heap of wooden planks and tree trunks known as "the earth art market...
...LAUGH very much these days. In fact, there've been only two things that made me cackle in recent memory: a line from Levi-Strauss ("... among the Mashona and Matabele of Africa the word 'totem' also means 'sister's vulva,' which provides indirect confirmation of the equivalence between eating and copulation"), and the play by Chris Durang '71 at Dunster House ("Where's Jesus' body?" "Would you believe the Knights of Columbus fervently...
...blocks to squander, Ossorio used no fewer than five in his work titled Waste Not, Want Not. Along with four mannequin heads, plus the weathered skull of a toothy lion, they have been neatly skewered, mounted and bedecked with paint to form a chillingly gay totem pole. It stands as a kind of wry monument to Ossorio's own aesthetic cannibalism...