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In Manhattan this week, heavy moneymen and big sports figures are gathering at a secret dinner for Quarterback turned Congressman Jack Kemp. His four-minute segment about taxes on Cronkite's show last Wednesday jiggled hearts as far away as Illinois. "Charismatic," said a middle-aged elephant. Participants in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roses with a Touch of Ragweed | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Small Change. Taking in this new Truffaut is like leafing through a photoalbum of adorable kid pictures. Call this movie a funny, touching toast to the gameness of gamins. Settling into the day-to-day routine of a comfortable French provincial town, Truffaut introduces us, through loosely coordinated vignettes, to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Cinema of Paradise: Carne, Bogart, Astaire ... ... Woody, Dustin, and Deliverance-- from finals | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

2. He got the major details wrong. First, DeVore has indeed "observed" baboons, but he, like Emmerich, has only heard about insects and elephant seals secondhand. Second, Emmerich criticized DeVore for having theorized about humans without being among "those scientists who actually studied human beings and societies." In fact, DeVore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More DeVore | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH THESE controversial theories are interesting, Devore is simply out of his league. After spending years observing insects, baboons and elephant seals, Devore proceeded to make unverifiable conjectures about analogous behavior patterns in human beings. He and his fellow sociobiologists are seemingly unaware of existing disciplines which deal specifically with...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Darwin Vulgarized | 4/13/1978 | See Source »

A number of the conservatory's pavilions are inspired by history or geography. The medieval herb garden, for instance, is complete with a bay tree surrounded by soft green turf. In the topiary garden, a hippo, giraffe, elephant and camel-sculpted in glossy English ivy-recall the playful conceits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Blooming Bronx | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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