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...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). It's man against fin, fang and claw as Bing Crosby and Joe Brooks fish for English Atlantic salmon, Rex Allen rounds up Oklahoma rattlesnakes, and Archer Fred Bear hunts Alaskan polar bears...
...Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours...."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
...came from the Midwes-born in Chicago, reared there and in Missouri-and stubbornly adhered to the idea that wickedness was no subject for entertainment. In his work, children and animals were naturally good; nature, at least in his animated films, was not so red in tooth and claw as it was cuddly...
...four make war on Raza's remote desert stronghold is the raw meat of The Professionals, and there hasn't been a livelier western whoop-up since Villain Palance bared fang and claw against Shane. Only once does the action slow down, during a gum battle between Palance and Lancaster, who seem to be firing off philosophical asides about the life of violence mainly because they need a rest. Most of the dialogue has a whiplash sting, and since the scenario is chiefly concerned with ambushes and train holdups and muscle-hard suspense, there is seldom time...
Most people would agree that mankind, despite painful lapses, has brought civilization a long way from the primordial rule of tooth and claw. Barrington Moore Jr. is not at all that sanguine. His view of civilization, in fact, is downright gloomy. It is Moore's thesis in this difficult and challenging book that modern man has yet to repeal his jungle past...