Word: aping
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Human beings, Rock charged, are "as sexually promiscuous and as hard to satiate as the ape. But sex in the human being consists of that indefinable attribute called love." The natural law of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, he said, demands that this love and the humanitarianism into which it is channeled be translated into responsible parenthood in a society based on monogamy...
...propelled Gulliver named Ulysse Mérou, lands his spaceship on a distant planet of the Betelgeuse system in the earth year 2502 and finds himself m a perfect replica of earthly society turned upside down. Men and women run naked through the wilds, hunted by beautifully tailored apes. Some are shot for sport, some are captured for scientific study. They are sent into trial space orbits, stuck in zoos, or utilized in medical experiments because they are, after all, physiologically very like the apes themselves. Ape scientists, in fact, believe that apes evolved coevally with man. They speculate that...
Poor man, an ape, anxious to use his paws...
Prof. Voltaire. At the University of Michigan, fraternity houses are stocked with not only old exams but also "teacher psych-outs"-dossiers compiled by A-students on professors' likes and dislikes. This allows con men to lug around the profs favorite magazine, or to ape his lingo. If this fails, says a recent Michigan graduate, there is the "welfare approach" of pretending poverty by wearing "hand-pressed khaki pants" and asking the professor on the very first-day "Ah, how much did you say that textbook was?" As a Wisconsin con man puts it: "These days...
...beatnik beer and poetry parlor. Pie-facing, like pratfalling, seems to be a lost art nowadays, and Avalon desecrates the memory of Deadpan Harry Langdon: he stands there and actually squinches up his eyes before the strawberry cream splatters all over his pretty face. Nonetheless, Annette goes ape for Frankie, crooning "I was such a fool/ To treat him so crool...