Word: walrusness
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...certainly a poor man. Bulb-eyed, walrus-mustached Parisian Léon Bloy published eight volumes of his journal, two autobiographical novels and many other works* during his 71-year lifetime that ended in 1917. But none sold enough copies to relieve him of the necessity of begging from his friends, from tradesmen, from strangers, to keep his wife and two daughters alive. Yet Beggar Bloy said no polite thank-yous to society. His writings alternated perfervid religious devotion with savage, four-letter-word vituperation against solid bourgeois values...
...costumes and sets carefully and beautifully patterned on the Tenniel drawings, and with Richard Addinsell's generally agreeable music, this Alice is no mere theatrical makeshift, but genuine make-believe. Outstanding episodes: The Pool of Tears, the Trial Scene, and Tweedledum & Tweedledee (whose joint recital of The Walrus and the Carpenter is neatly acted out with marionettes). As Alice, Bambi Linn (Oklahoma!, Carousel) has a true childlike charm, a Tenniel look, and a big-eyed, brow-furrowed wonderment...
Another braintruster is Mosha Pijade, 55, Jewish Vice President of Yugoslavia's powerless Parliament. He is a greying, walrus-mustached, hunchbacked little man (when he sits at his desk, his legs do not reach the floor), who used to be a journalist, modernist painter and a Belgrade drawing-room lion until Communists were taken seriously. Then he was jailed, spent years studying Chinese, lecturing his jailmates, and translating Das Kapital into Serbo-Croatian...
Huge, husky (242 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) Cap Krug looked like an Alaskan himself when he got into a wool shirt. He flew across the Arctic Circle to Point Barrow, ate whale meat, and walked through a litter of walrus heads to duck into native shacks. He surprised his guides by landing two-foot rainbow trout in the Kenai River. He also listened-and listened. Everywhere he went-Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Anchorage, Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Metla Katla-Alaskans who had always wanted to tell the Secretary of the Interior what they thought of the Government proceeded...
Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, on a flying tour of Alaska, was banqueted with a difference when he dropped in on little Barrow, the continent's farthest-north town. Eskimos dined him in the schoolhouse. Spécialites de maison: barbecued caribou, seal cheek, roast walrus heart, fried seal liver, candied whale meat...