Word: pachyderm
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Richard Nixon, California gubernatorial candidate, yesterday sent race officials a telegram saying he had been "involved in a few such races myself. I know there is more to the fine art of pachyderm pacing than meets the eye. It is perhaps a sign of the times...
Like the professor of The Blue Angel, Albinus, a middle-aged Berlin art dealer, is pudgy, pompous and naive, a kind of pachyderm in a panic whose downfall is chilling precisely because a sardonic hilarity bubbles continuously through the pathos. In the velvety darkness of a movie theater, Albinus (no last name) is hypnotized by the usherette's "pale, sulky, painfully beautiful face.'' Margot is one of the daughters of the poor who have learned the market quotations on fair white bodies. Albinus, respectably and dully married, is enthralled by her, not because she is earthy...
...Pampered Pachyderm. Hannibal had to fend off hostile rock throwers; Hoyte and Jumbo had only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...
...likes to give money," says Chatô. "Brazilians like big things, and everybody knows I'm doing big things for Brazil." Few of his countrymen dare or care to quibble; one Brazilian industrialist who balked found himself labeled in Chatô's press as "a bandit, looter, pachyderm, hippopotamus, Berber filibuster, Barbary pirate." Typical contributors: Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli, Banker (and former Ambassador to Washington) Walther Moreira Salles, Industrialist Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari (occasional playmate of Linda Christian). Chatô himself is the most generous giver, but seems almost ashamed to admit that he ever had to reach into...
Tusk Force. To most, Morel is half-crazed, a crank at best, his pro-pachyderm activities comic and futile. But Gary wonderfully evokes what the elephants mean to Morel, so that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...