Word: bond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Austin-Healys and buxom blonde starlets do not impress John le Carre. The veteran British spy novelist writes fiction, not fantasy; the fast cars and bikini-clad counterspies that dominate the pleasantly foolish world of James Bond and Matt Helm have no-place in his books. To le Carre, the cloak-and-dagger game is really a business, and the men and women who work at it are hardly likely to decorate cinema marquees...
...America Turning Right?" cover story several weeks ago, Newsweek magazine ran a photographic "who's who" that resembled nothing if not a mug-shot line-up of the intellectual ringleaders of this drive to turn back the progressive, egalitarian tide. "There's no new right," Georgia State Sen. Julian Bond is quoted as saying directly beneath this assemblage of snap-shots. "There's a new left of unbelievably queasy liberals...
Richard Helms may be the closest thing to a master spy that America can claim. He was not a James Bond, roaming the world in exotic machines, wooing (and always winning) dazzling women, vanquishing villains beneath the sea and in the air. Perhaps he came closer to "M," Bond's legendary boss who sent 007 on his journeys down the world's back alleys. But even in the courtroom last week where Helms was given his $2,000 fine and suspended sentence for misleading Senators about the CIA's efforts to keep Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming...
...increase in brain size. Hunting, with its emphasis on outwitting animals that were either faster, stronger or fiercer than the hominids that hunted them, also stimulated rapid brain growth. In addition, says Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan, it placed a premium on cooperation, strengthening the bond between members of the group and starting man on the road toward developing language...
...entering my collection in that contest for the best undergraduate library. Sure, my library is organized around one motif--mysteries. I have all the classics, including "The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of the Stolen Treasure," "Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Stolen Treasure," and my favorite, "James Bond and the Treasure of the Mystery Stole...