Word: wombat
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...anthology is a sort of zoo. The literary lions are not at their best caged up away from their own kind, and may look ridiculous if housed next door to a morose musk ox or an albino bandicoot. Even the labels may go wrong, and the surly, myopic wombat is advertised as a Thomson's gazelle. But the zoogoers don't mind. They have always known that some animals are nicer than others. So it is with anthologies; they are compiled for those who have been taught to be kind to writers but are nervous as to whether...
...Asia, the island continent became an asylum for the primitive marsupials and monotremes. There, an odd sort of evolution took place: instead of the great herds of hoofed animals that developed on other continents, Australia produced kangaroos and wallabies; in place of squirrels there are platypuses and phalangers. The wombat is Australia's equivalent of the badger, and predatory beasts are represented by the Tasmanian wolf, a doglike marsupial...
...part of WBAI's offering. A fine panel discussion tied up "Payola and Mental Poverty" in broadcasting, a series of two-hour lectures began on "The History of Music," and other shows looked into fields that varied from "The Art of Clyfford Still" to "The Death of a Wombat...
nigel, as readers of Down With Skool! (TIME, Sept. 20, 1954) are still apt to recall in their nightmares, is a sort of cross between Tom Brown and a wombat and looks like all the downtrodden weeds, wets, clots, new bugs, old lags, young ticks, cads, roters, and bulies of the British public school system swept into one messy pile. He alone, as Author Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle describe him, is quite enough to account for the current teacher shortage in England...
...like: they had met him, in good season and bad, in all his types-from Admiral William Halsey Jr. and General Douglas MacArthur to the G.I.s in the bars. But last week they met another U.S. citizen as different and astonishing to them as the koala, platypus, kiwi, wombat and dingo had been to their forbears...