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...with his announcement that man and ape were descended from a common ancestor. Neanderthal's apish image was further enforced by the writings early in this century of the respected French paleontologist Pierre Marcellin Boule. His portrait of Neanderthal as a stunted, beetle-browed creature who walked with bent knees and arms dangling in front of him served as the model for several generations of artists and cartoonists. While certain coarse features in Neanderthal man are undeniable, on physical considerations alone he deserves far better treatment. As the late Harvard anthropologist Earnest Hooton once commented: "You can, with equal...
...latticework of bridges, boulevards and traffic circles, Washington, D.C., is a vulnerable target, and Mayday Organizer Rennie Davis and his radicals have had the city squarely in their sights for a long time. Determined to bring the Government to a halt for at least one day, they are bent on carrying out a meticulous plan that is a model of guerrilla ingenuity. The theme: stop the blood and you stop the heart. Stop the heart and the "monster"-the war machine-dies. The means: block the city's bridges and roads with thousands of protesters...
...thoroughness that would do credit to a West Point classroom. Above all, participants were cautioned, Washington's black community must be disturbed as little as possible, and the Government employees denied access to their offices must not be alienated, but embraced. The soft-spoken Davis seems clearly bent on instruction rather than intimidation of Government workers. But the potential for intimidation is there. Said he: "If there are still people in this town who don't feel they are guilty, who can get up and put on their coats and ties and go to work, we are going...
...disaster at Medûm, Mendelssohn is convinced, caused consternation 30 miles away at Dahshûr, the site of the so-called Bent Pyramid. Some scholars have suggested that the Bent Pyramid's strange shape (its sides start up at an angle of 52°, but halfway to the top the slope changes abruptly to a more gentle 43½°) was brought about by the premature death of the pharaoh, which forced the workers to hasten completion of the pyramid. Mendelssohn, however, believes that the builders at Dahshûr, hearing of the avalanche...
Ostensibly he was there reporting on the effects of the October 1969 U.S. Supreme Court order that 30 Mississippi school districts integrate immediately and completely. Beyond that, Morris was reluctantly bent on re-evaluating his own attachments to the South. Three years before he had published North Toward Home, a fine memoir of his boyhood and youth. Judging from the letters he received from Mississippi, he was not the most popular boy in town...