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...please come! Ya gotta come!" But Mantle and Maris only shake their heads sadly; and then Mantle, with a wisdom that few fans have suspected him of concealing, gives Hutch a few pointers on the great game of life. "Hutch," he drawls stolidly, "yew lied. Now son, yew cain't make a foul ball faar, jes' by movin' the baselines...
...means for instance thuh hull damn thang is did in this hayere gawddam diuhlect, which at times gits purty sickenin'. And thuh way them guys clomp aroun' back uh thuh stage and forgit tuh turn thuh lights on an' off ain't inny too plasin' neither. Offhand, Ah cain't thank uv no wuss place to put on uh play than thet thar Kirkland Hayuse Joonyer Cummin Room. Sum uv thuh actin' ain't all thet all-fired good, is another thang...
...Eureka" at a murky test tube held up to a bare light bulb." But misrepresentation is not confined to scientists. Stylized representations of all professions, generally grossly inaccurate, flood our media. Our T.V. cowboys bear no more resemblance to real post-Civil War cowboys than Perry Mason and Nicholas Cain bear to real lawyers, or Peter Gunn to a real private detective. Piel's unkind, thinly disguised cut at Frank Papp's Bell Telephone science series completely ignores first the unusual accuracy and clear presentation of the programs, and second the fact that they were prepared primarily for young children...
Down to Death. Brigham Young, the dynamic, much-married second head of the church, condemned Negroes, as descendants of Cain, to a heavenly waiting line: "They will go down to death. And when all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the holy priesthood, then the curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will come up and possess the priesthood...
Modern man, like all his known ancestors, is partially carnivorous. He kills food animals, usually by proxy, but this is not the same as being a "killer" or a "Cain." These emotional terms, which are favorites with Ardrey, imply that murderous violence is common among humans. The contrary is true. In spite of the prominence of killing in popular literature, the great strength of man, far back into prehistory, has been his ability to live in large cooperative groups whose members seldom kill each other. No other animal does this as well...