Word: walrusness
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...Drew in jazz-flavored classical ballet movements. Adam, according to Rexroth's directions, "emerges, as if from clay, rises, stretches, yawns, discovers one by one the use of his limbs." He then gets acquainted with the garden's livestock as they cavort in pairs and trios - the walrus and the ape, the lamb and the leopard, the rabbit, the skunk and the fox - all costumed to [he last whisker. Weary at last of the ballet of the beasts, Adam rests on the gnarled, raised roots of a tree. It is then that Eve (Sally Bailey) emerges from underneath...
Died. Govind Ballabh Pant, 73, Home Minister of India since 1955 and a wise, wily veteran of the ruling Congress Party who ranked second only to Nehru; of a stroke; in New Delhi. A broad-shouldered six-footer with sad eyes and a snow white walrus mustache, Brahman Pant was headed for a brilliant legal career when he joined Gandhi's independence movement in the '20s. He was jailed by the British three times, suffered a clout on the back of the neck during a 1928 freedom demonstration that partially disabled him for life with trembling head...
...building a baby-walrus idea to rhinoceros proportions, the play fills up with flabby incident, labored joking, repetitious tricks; and the final scene has neither horror nor pathos enough. But Rhinoceros gives Broadway a breath of exhilarating insanity during a too-often imbecile season...
Died. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 71, British World War I cartoonist who spent his spare time in the muddy trenches in France drawing "Old Bill," the sad-eyed, shaggy-headed, walrus-mustached embodiment of the dogged British Tommy, earned a fortune as Old Bill endeared himself to readers around the world; in Norton, England...
Probably the most unlikely moneyman ever appointed to the high post of secretary of the Bank of England was a tall, genial, walrus-mustached Scot who much preferred to spend his time on the bank of the Thames. The Old Lady of Thread-needle Street, with a comfortable ?40 million worth of bullion in her vaults toward the end of the last century, could well afford an officer who set records for short hours and long absences (due to illness), occupied himself with punting, sculling and solitary walks. It was another activity that made his fellow Citymen uncomfortable: Kenneth Grahame...