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DENAZIFICATION by Constantine Fitz-Gibbon. 222 pages. Norton...
...final paper he wrote on the vocalizations of the Great Apes. Standing in a bathtub (to get the right reverberations) Hal and his father recorded sounds made by the orangutan and the chimpanzee. Hall is particularly proud of his reproduction of the copulation call of the female gibbon--he feels it was his masterpiece...
...that he no longer likes being in and about the city. "Now my apartment is a haven, a sanctuary against the city. New York is not manageable for the ordinary citizen living in it." He adds: "It's all right there in the last two volumes of Gibbon. All this opulence and comfort have led to sophistry. We're now hopelessly confused between privileges and rights. Nobody feels an obligation to the city any more. The only obligation is to one's family. The breakdown in society comes when people can't recognize any public obligations...
...temporary defoliation over widespread areas could threaten the existence of some animal species that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already close to extinction. One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves. Also endangered are the Indo-Chinese gibbon and the rare kouprey, a remnant of a mid-Miocene ancestor of modern cattle...
Higher on Darwin's family tree And join in man's society. Then some gifted gibbon may Be able in his apish way To peer at Cape Canaveral And write a new Decline and Fall...