Word: walrus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eskimos carve sea lions, bears, fish and birds. The forms are sinuous, graceful and smoothly polished. Every detail is included from curving, scimitar tusks to flippers braced against a rock. One sculpted walrus seems almost about to snort and lumber into the water with the gigantic plosh of several tons of blubber. After stalking these creatures for centuries the hunter-artists sculpt them with a combination of humor...
...couple of years this fall's World Series will be remembered as the Popsicle Classic, as the cold Walrus-type weather and the even colder businesslike style of the Cincinnati Reds characterized the first four game sweep of the fall classic since the Baltimore Orioles Sandy Koufax into a Jewish joke...
...Pierpont Morgan sat for the most succinct photograph of big money ever taken: Alfred Steichen's portrait of the financial titan glaring at the intrusive lens, an old, suspicious bull walrus, one hand gripping the chair arm as though about to reduce its mahogany to flinders, highlights glittering sharply on his eyeballs. He looks like a boiler on the verge of explosion. If Morgan had never felt the impulse to collect, this photograph would still have given him a place in the history of art. But it would have been a footnote compared to the one he occupies. Morgan...
...everybody, and was especially tough on power plays as he turned aside at least four drives from the slot by Jim Thomas and Bob Goodenow. The second worst thing about these saves (beside the obvious fact that the Crimson did not score) was the reaction they brought from a walrus-like B.U. fan with a waxed mustache seated directly behind me. Bringing the bedroom to the Garden, he moaned and bellowed as if near orgasm, "Ah, ah, ah go B.U." I preferred their old cheer because an organ, which used to lead their cheer, cannot spit...
...just goes to show what should have been obvious already from official discouragement of debate even on such close-to-home topics as universities' social impact: when it comes to encouraging controversies, some liberal academics are like Lewis Carroll's Walrus. With tears and sobs they sort apart those of the largest size, holding their pocket-handkerchiefs before their streaming eyes...