Word: berge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...species that carry human and animal diseases, notably the microscopic parasite that causes schistosomiasis, an ancient and virtually incurable ailment common in many warm countries. Though a selective chemical capable of destroying the guilty snails is under development and shows high promise (TIME, July 5), Cornell Entomologist Clifford O. Berg thinks that a more practical approach would be to encourage the snail's natural enemies...
...Josh White, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter-Paul-and-Mary rendered hymns and civil rights songs. Actor Marlon Brando brandished an electric cattle prod of the sort sometimes used by cops against civil rights demonstrations. Author James Baldwin, Actors Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston made appearances. And onetime Folies-Bergère Star Josephine Baker looked out at the biracial crowd and snapped satisfiedly: "Salt and pepper-just what it should...
Almost a Man. The main Boer hero, poor and handsome Boete van der Berg, fights alongside each great chieftain in turn, at the end surrenders with Jan Christiaan Smuts. His girl ferrets out military secrets by flirting with British officers. After the war they start life anew, with 500 gold sovereigns saved from the looters by an aged Kaffir retainer. And so it goes in plummy neo-Hemingway prose, with three dozen major characters, 189 speaking parts, thousands of extras, and big-name guest stars playing themselves-War Correspondent Winston Churchill, Army Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle, Stretcher-Bearer Mohandas Gandhi...
...hath anger in his look," is as convincing as her langorous intonation of pseudo-Chekhovian eclectic imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand tradition of Molly Picon and Gertrude Berg. However, her miming as the maid in Drainpipes owes more to French farce than to Ibsen...
...following programs of recorded music will be played from 1 to 3 p.m. in time Bunch-Reisinger Museum: today: Berg, Chamber concerto for violin, piano, and 13 wind instruments; Suite from Lulu; Thursday: Handel, Alcina; Friday: Handel, Alcina...