Word: aping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NAKED APE, by Desmond Morris. Anthropologically questionable, but unquestionably entertaining speculations on man and his primate forebears...
NONFICTION 1. The Naked Ape, Morris...
...difference between Trudeau and Pearson is style. While Pearson is a largely unadventurous politician, Trudeau is an intellectual man on the go, impatient with old ideas and restless for results. Zoologist Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape, says that Trudeau has "animal qualities" that "bring him to the top of the heap." The son of a millionaire land and oil investor, he studied law at the University of Montreal and political economics at Harvard, went on to the London School of Economics and Paris' Ecole des Sciences Politiques. In 1948-49, he strapped on a knapsack and took...
...initial act of progress is evolutionary. A series of brief scenes establishes the life cycle of the australopithicine before its division into what became both ape and man--they eat grass, are victimized by carnivores, huddle together defensively. One morning they awake to find in their midst a tall, thin, black rectangular monolith, its base embedded in the ground, towering monumentally above them, plainly not a natural formation. They touch it and we note at that moment that the moon and sun are in orbital conjunction...
Visually, Planet of the Apes is just as senseless. The ape community looks to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, on an off-day. A lengthy fight sequence between Heston and the apes achieves next to no continuity because director Franklin Schaffner fools around too much with the camera. But the apes themselves, if a cut below their remarkable prototypes in 2001: A Space Odyssey, could easily be worse--with lousy makeup or lousy actors. Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall and Maurice Evans are the best...