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...minutes later, DeVore emphasized that every one of these seemingly sexist findings has been found to be completely untrue or true only when extremely qualified. DeVore noted in the balance of his talk--repeatedly--that societies that he and others have studied have a continuity based on female descent and kinship, that males are usually unable to "lead" females anywhere, and that dominance hierarchies do not fit any simplistic males-are-dominant-over-passive-females model. Almost as if he had omitted the word "not" from a quotation, Emmerich represented DeVore as saying something 180 degrees the opposite...
...locations was the Austrian prison camp of Mauthausen, which was used to simulate Auschwitz and Buchenwald. "It was a frightening place," says Berger. "The average life span of a Jew there was 48 hours. At one point in the filming, Cyril Shaps, a totally professional English actor of Jewish descent, was putting on his pajama-striped prison garb in the barracks at Mauthausen; suddenly he said, 'I don't think I can go on.' He was destroyed when he realized, as we all did, that we would have been in those uniforms or worse...
...into a strong all-surface player...has a very solid, consistent game, if not too flashy...has no glaring weaknesses, with strong groundstrokes and volleys, and a good kick-serve...a smart doubles player, and match-tough in both singles and doubles from long years of competition...of Czechoslovakian descent, joints Chaikovsky as second Slavic member of team...
There are some artists whose precocity almost seems a curse, and one of them is Frank Stella, a wiry, taciturn American of Sicilian descent who turns 42 next month but whose work must seem (to younger painters) to have been around forever. For ten years, from the moment in 1960 when his black pinstripe paintings were exhibited at Manhattan's Castelli Gallery, Stella's work was one of the main points around which the critical debates of that logorrheic decade precipitated themselves...
There is a simple way to survive any sports-trivia discussion in a Irish bar, and that is to realize that every major sports record established in the past 75 years belongs either to a native born Irishman, someone of Irish descent, or "someone who should have been Irish." Granted, that last category may seem a bit large, encompassing everyone from Muhammed Ali to Ernie DiGreggorio, but in the mind of an Irishman it is just a string of minor footnotes appended to the litany of Gaelic athletic glory...