Ormandy, who gave the Philadelphia Orchestra a chinchilla echo, and who is an ideal conductor of Johann Strauss, as well as a specialist in posthumous music such as Tchaikovsky’s Seventh (and even in such prehumous music as Webern’s Im Sommerwind);[…]

visually decorticate having had the visual cortex removed

a plain pink polycotton skirt

The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg—especially as Peter Coffin’s cock and bull stories about him had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person whom I now companied with.