Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prolific and hungry for farmers' crops that they are legally classified as vermin in South Africa. Highly developed primates and kin to man, baboons are also highly useful in medical research. Only recently, a baboon's cornea was successfully grafted onto a man's eye. A pig's liver, although it tolerates human blood, is not nearly so sophisticated as the baboon...
...Outsider (NBC, Wednesday, 10-11 p.m.). Darren McGavin, who played Mike Hammer in the television series, is now a mercifully un-Hammerlike private eye named David Ross. In the first program, Ross got his work done without resorting to brutality and heman seductions; he impersonated a millionaire gambler in an effort to trap a crooked cardplayer. Ross exposed the cheater and departed, having provided the viewer with a provocative glimpse of a cutthroat poker game. That's all, and that's enough...
...merge Plessey with another firm, one possibility being Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd., an aircraft and diesel-engine manufacturer. And he can always hope for a miracle, like the government's withdrawing its approval of the proposed merger. In the U.S., the Justice Department would cast the dourest eye on a get-together between such large competitors. But Harold Wilson's government, as the Sunday Times puts it, could hardly stamp out a merger that "represents a culmination of its policy for modernizing British industry...
...most heart-stopping sequence, in fact, is the hero's climb to the roof of the orphanage to retrieve a lost ball. This is only one of the many small human truths that Director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) presents to delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children playing a game evoke the whole mysterious mosaic of human diversity. The interior decoration of an old thief's brand-new flat hits just the right level...
...such earlier novels as Square's Progress and Office Politics, Sheed constructs a bright, cutting prose from the dross of everyday slang. He wields that prose with a subtle ear for speech rhythms and a sardonic eye for the telltale gesture. In this new volume, he also musters a quality that had been somewhat lacking in his earlier, coolly satirical work: a sense of urgency. The milieu of childhood that occupies him here seems to have tapped deep, previously unsuspected currents of emotion. Still the accomplished novelist of manners, he is now taking a more searching look...