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...extent, man has already altered himself and his planet. Scientists can only guess at the genetic toll from radioactive fallout, chemical contamination and other assaults on the environment. Even man's noblest impulses are apt to offend against nature. While improved medical care assures the survival and reproduction of those with genetically caused mental and physical defects, it also ensures that an increasingly larger percentage of the population will be heir to these illnesses in years to come. Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky succinctly expresses the ethical dilemma. "If we enable the weak and the deformed to live and to propagate their...
...emotionally shallow, Huck's journey down the Mississippi lacks even the rudimentary sense of adventure that Tom Sawyer would demand of such an undertaking. And when Bergreen abruptly telescopes the last third of Twain's novel to arrive at a moral and a finis simultaneously, even the impatient are apt to feel more cheated than relieved...
...When he cuts into portraiture, his character's positions and the bent of their heads tells us much about their relationship. The transition into the next sequence is provided by a fast dissolve from a skyscape to the bottom of another tribesman's well. The image is shocking and apt; if the foregoing scenes emphasized brotherhood, the following ones will depict the narrow hatreds of a divided race...
...some instances retreating in bloody disorder (see THE WORLD). Pentagon analysts called it "a rearguard action under medium pressure," and some Saigon briefers spoke of it as "redeployment"-a word that suggests the shuffling of papers from IN basket to OUT basket. One South Vietnamese general, obviously an apt student of the language, explained it as "normal troop rotation...
...TITLE of the Currier House film series is almost shamefully apt, for that is pretty much the position of women in the movie industry: women are in films, but rarely on the other side of the camera. A few women have had productive careers as screenwriters-Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, Jane Murfin, Lillian Hellman, and most recently, Adrian Joyce ( Five Easy Pieces ). But even before Pauline Kael began talking about it, it was easy to see that Hollywood treated writers (male and female) as little more than unfortunate necessities. Often, the most powerful women in the movie business are those...