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...This is the one billboards and match covers have been booming as "A most unusual motion picture," a statement I won't dispute. But when the ads go on to peg it as a certain successor to "The Lost Weekend" in the Oscar department, then I must beg to differ...
...Those who "question whether angels are personal beings, and whether matter and spirit differ essentially...
...intended to draw spectators . . . The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?" Twenty years before public hangings were finally abolished (in 1868), Charles Dickens begged to differ: "I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the crowd . . . could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under...
Race does exist, however, says the report. Because of different biological histories (of climate, isolation, etc.), groups of men have come to differ somewhat. Certain "genes" are more common in some groups than in others. "Such genes, responsible for the hereditary differences between men, are always few when compared to the whole genetic constitution of man and to the vast number of genes common to all human beings . . . This means that the likenesses among men are far greater than their differences...
...much do these "ethnic groups" differ in intelligence? Not much, if at all, says the UNESCO report. "Given similar degrees of cultural opportunity to realize their potentialities, the average achievement of each ethnic group is about the same. The scientific investigations of recent years fully support the dictum of Confucius [551-478 B.C.]: 'Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart...