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Members of the Class of '33 will also be treated to the first public exhibition of the Kronosaurus sea monster, a fossil skeleton of what was once the largest flesh-eating reptile in the sea. Reunionrs have been invited to a pre-public unveiling today. The exhibit will be open on general exhibition tomorrow, June...
...author of the Professor and the Fossil is one of those scholars mentioned earlier who found that Mr. Toynbee rode rough shod through his field, cultivating it with error and prejudice...
From Maurice Samuels acquaintance with Jewish culture it is not so obvious, as it is to Toynbee, that a term like fossil can be/applied to the Jewish people. This was the starting point for a thorough investigation of Toynbee's use of the term. Mr. Samuels documents a case against Toynbee showing the author's unintelligibility in key areas, his innaccuracies as to historical fact, and his seemingly willful distortions in trying to change the facts rather than his theories...
...geisha may be disappearing with the swift-changing status of the Japanese woman. But whether she prove phoenix or fossil, the geisha has found a compassionate historian in Author Yamata, a writer who knows how to highlight her heroines against the backdrop of theatrical restaurants and teahouses through whose sliding bamboo panels these sad gay ladies of Japan move to their discreet, historic and bittersweet rendezvous...
...archaic dead end, accuses Zionism of attempting to achieve the Messianic promise of the Jews' return to Israel through force. Toynbee's sentiments-and scholarship-on Judaism are the subject of an angry attack by noted Jewish Author Maurice Samuel (The Professor and the Fossil, Knopf; $4), who believes that Toynbee's vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as "fossilized relics" fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival...