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Excited yet? Well, neither was anybody else. But all of a sudden, in the second half, something--and it wasn't the ghost of Arnie Needleman--got ahold of the Crimson, and inspired play began to flourish at both ends of the court. Chief catalysts were Rogers, 19 pts., Irion, 18 pts., and Bob Hooft...
Empires rise and fall. Tribes, nations, peoples flourish and vanish. Customs and cultures evolve. Why? Is it God's will? Sheer chance? The power of greed? The pattern of history? All of the above is probably the safest answer. But even taking that much into account, argues University of Chicago Professor William McNeill, historians miss one of the prime catalysts in human history: infectious disease...
Humanity's experience with illness began millenniums ago when microparasites-bacteria and viruses-evolved into the same ecological niche as man. Disease organisms presented few problems as long as humans were few and their communities small; pathogenic, or disease-causing, microbes can flourish only in a large human reservoir. But population growth and the development of cities provided a perfect breeding ground for epidemic illness. Outbreaks of various kinds killed Babylonians and Egyptians, stalked the streets of ancient China...
...wrap up this rambling indecisive attempt at a thriller "American style." It is as if in Chinatown Jack Nicholson only discovered that John Huston had any interest in land just before he shot Faye Dunaway. Nor does the film's shallow social satire allow its all star cast to flourish any more than does the plot. Mastoianni is locked into a dull role as a middle class detective unsure of how to treat the high society Torinisti he is investigation, in particular how to deal with his growing non-professional interest in Jacqueline Bisset. Bisset does not seem half...
Evangelicals flourish in many parts of the country, but nowhere are they more identified with the prevailing religious culture than in the South. Perhaps 20 million of the South's 32 million Protestants are evangelicals,* as opposed to 5.5 million Roman Catholics and only 500,000 Jews...