Word: apes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apes take their painting seriously," said Sir Kenneth seriously. "The patterns they produce are not the result of mere accident but of intense, if short-lived concentration and a lively sense of balance and space-filling. If you compare the painting of a young ape with that of a human child of relatively the same age, you will find that in the first, expressive, patternmaking stage, the ape is superior...
Then, inexorably, the child begins to paint things-man, house, truck, etc. This the ape never does." He does not develop because he lacks the child's impulse to record what he sees. If the desire to represent external reality reflects the loftier idea of "the formation of concepts, which are then modified by visual sensation," the image is bound to return. "For I consider the human faculty of forming concepts at least as inalienable as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
Williams has peopled the U.S. stage with characters whose vibrantly durable presences stalk the corridors of a playgoer's memory: Amanda Wingfield, the fussy, garrulous, gallant mother of Glass Menagerie; Streetcar's Blanche DuBois, Southern gentlewoman turned nymphomaniac, and its Stanley Kowalski, the hairy ape in a T shirt...
Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 of Kirkland House won the $75 first prize in an Adams House Drama Society contest for his play The Better Angel. George D. Kelly '63 of Eliot House took second prize ($50) for a movie script, The Ape's Tragedy...
...doubt he formed societies for protection like the modern baboon. That is only part of the story, for baboons are herbivorous. Australopithecus was a flesh-eater, and he needed to kill in order to survive. But a four-foot, ninety pound ape-man is a poor match for a large animal--unless he is armed...