Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spectrum of human opinion, is as justifiable and allowable as any other. Yet when J. Wyatt concludes that "It [sociobiology] serves as a powerful force of legitimization for the elites of a hierarchical society that is kind to those on top and harsh to those on the bottom." (Anyway, what kind of sentence is this!) I must take strong objection. If, with any degree of writing skill and thematic continuity Emmerich employed in composing his statement, how did he jump from his "no evidence" criticism to a rather strong and unconfirmable remark of DeVore's politics. I am sure that...
There are fleeting flaws, inevitably, but it'd be grouchy to make much of them; when a director is so clearly a perfectionist, a critic can afford, for a little while anyway, to relax. Nabatoff and Bushman could sing "You're The Top" to each other instead of the audience; a few funny lines were buried in the laughter on opening night and some of the supporting players might raise their volume a little; during the second act, someone says Moon is locked in the brig, after he has clearly participated in the previous production number--oh hell, enough...
...those of "sociobiology" in an apparent attempt to discredit DeVore through the controversial nature of that new field; DeVore's views are those of traditional biological anthropology. I guess Emmerich just dislikes the study of human evolution, or perhaps he is "out of his league" in discussing it. Anyway, in his final paragraph he changes DeVore's scientific theories to political ones. Only Emmerich, not DeVore, suggests that laws and civil rights might be based on man's evolutionary past, which though helpful--like history--in understanding how he does behave, does not determine how he should behave...
...fired plants. Nationwide, Chase Econometrics calculates that by 1985 the total cost of converting old oil-or gas-burning plants might reach $60 billion. That figure does not include the cost of constructing new coal-fired plants, since many of those factories would have to be built anyway, whatever fuel was used to power them-but the cost will nonetheless be huge...
...kept turning up in his cases sensed that the American dream had newly relocated there, and everyone was feverishly intent on grabbing his share-getting in on the ground floor, as it were. Good, gray London hasn't been like that since Will Shakespeare's day-or anyway, Charles Dickens'-and the correlation between landscape and Chandler's characters simply does not exist...