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...that it subliminally provided the subject matter for much of his writing. Physically imposing, with a frightening temper that he vented very discriminately on his children and the Czech employees in his fancy-goods shop. Herman Kafka terrorized young Franz with threats, public humiliation and arbitrary commandments. Kafka's earliest memory was of being whisked out of bed one night and dumped outdoors--punishment for being thirsty. Whoever said The Trial was "puzzling and abstract...
...experts in Washington than anybody dreamed of," but he hopes that Congress will finally vote the funds some time during this Roosevelt centennial year. Even so, he adds, "I don't envision we'll be able to move on construction until Oct. 1, 1983, at the earliest...
...basketball team--was scheduled to have been ready November for a special dedication game between the men's team and Stanford. But because of construction delays, the hoopsters are still playing in the ancient Indoor Athletic Building, and the Cage will not be ready until February at the earliest...
Like life, the series begins slowly. Attenborough ventures back to the planet's earliest days, some 3 billion or so years ago. DNA molecules lead to bacteria, which in turn are transformed into protozoans. Over hundreds of millions of years, the oceans begin to swarm with increasingly complicated forms of life. The records from those days are scanty at best, and, to the layman, one fossil looks much like another. There may be books in running brooks and sermons in stones, but they do not translate very well into...
...learn some of these matters, Leakey and his colleagues have recently concentrated on such living fossils as the tribesmen of the Kalahari, who live much as man's earliest ancestors did, foraging for vegetables, sharing meat when they hunt successfully, carrying their culture in their heads. His conclusion is refreshingly optimistic: there is no proof in the hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari that man is an inherently violent "killer ape." The modern urge to mass violence appears to be acquired, not inherited...