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Haunted Halls. With nudging from his mother, John's writing career began at the age of eight, when he sat down at her typewriter and pecked out his first story, beginning: "The tribe of Bum-Bums looked very solemn as they sat around their cosy cave fire." Even with this early start, his writing career lagged three years behind his parallel interest in cartooning and painting: he had had a collage published in a children's magazine when he was five...
...photographic dominance of the world that bothers Susan Sontag and against which she reacts in On Photography. She asks pointed questions about the nature of photography and its effects on culture and society--aesthetic questions, moral questions, political questions, philosophical questions. She alludes to the parable of Plato's cave and the way in which people experience the world through images rather than reality--"humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still revelling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth"--and argues that the nature of photographic images fundamentally changes the perception and experience of reality, changes...
...spring of 1945, with the Nazis on the verge of defeat, a small group of scientists crowded into a cave in southern Germany for one last attempt at starting a chain reaction in their uranium pile. It was far too late to produce an atomic bomb that could help the fatherland. But the scientists-unaware that the U.S. had accomplished the feat more than two years before-were determined that Germany should produce the world's first nuclear chain reaction before the war ended. Their experiment, like the entire German A-bomb program, ended in failure...
...sociologist and her fiance (Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell), who provoke a veritable Scopes trial in reverse, at the end of which Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans) resolves to castrate Heston and reduce him otherwise to a vegetable. His ape sponsors, however, rescue him, and together they journey to a cave where McDowall claims to have unearthed evidence of a lost human culture. Evans arrives, dynamites the cave, and mercifully lets Heston go his way, complete with mute mate. But after traveling some miles down the beach, Heston discovers the Statue of Liberty buried waist-high in sand, thus revealing...
Other barbers are not so broad-minded, however. One said, "It took 2000 years to get up from the cave; why do they want to go back...