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...undeniably an exciting writer, with a very excitable mind. He has the playwright's flair for the dramatic, for the hyperbole that embroiders truth. That does not mean that his books should be swallowed whole. He will never win his spurs in the scientific community, which stands aghast at his unscientific methodology. The true scientist strives to make a theory stick by marshaling all the conceivable evidence against it. Ardrey vaults to a theory over the obstacles of rebutting fact...
Moorehead leaves the contemporary reader aghast at the obtuseness of the British, who followed Cook's discovery with the decision to make a penal settlement of New Holland. Reason has its crimes: since the American dumping ground for Puritan and Catholic dissidents had been lost by the Revolution, it was quite sensible in London to decide that the new continent should be used for a gaol. In 1788, the year of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, civilization in the form of white slavery arrived at Cook's Botany Bay. So came about a bush Belsen, with...
...Noble Savage, who never won a race at all. August Belmont gave his name to a famous race track (New York's Belmont Park), but he is better remembered as the fellow who bred Man o' War-and sold him as a yearling for $5,000. Aghast at his blunder, Belmont tried to reproduce the champion that got away. He mated Mahubah to Fair Play all over again and was rewarded with My Play, who won only nine minor races in four years...
...Nixon is like flipping the switch on a music box: "a national figue...political appeal...I think he's going to be elected to the Senate." But Nixon's zeal allows him to ignore, for example, an anti-Vietnam-war wind that blows in Oregon. (He looked at me aghast; "I haven't really studied Hatfield's views on Vietnam, but I hope they're not like Morse...
...million to their grocery bills for a farm program that farmers do not want." By that, he means the Agricultural Act of 1965-the farm bill-which cleared the House two weeks ago and is now before the Senate Agriculture Committee. The chairman, Lousiana Democrat Allen Ellender, is aghast at the rising cost of Government farm programs and the ever-increasing surpluses, appears grimly determined to do something about it this time...