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...poles are where they are. The South Pole is in the middle of a continent, and the North Pole is in the middle of the small Arctic Ocean, which is almost entirely surrounded by land. This setup is like a slow-responding thermostat that keeps the earth alternating between glacial and interglacial periods...
Tremendous Experience. The story is compellingly told in terms of Doris L., a young woman admitted to California's Metropolitan State Hospital as a catatonic. Mute, withdrawn, her eyes blank and disregarding of the world, Doris nevertheless had a great natural dignity, an almost glacial repose that seemed invulnerable to any appeal. For 2% months a concealed camera recorded her psychiatric sessions with Dr. Louis Cholden. His slow struggle to reach a human being submerged in indifference had in it all the wire-thin inten sity of great drama. When Doris finally smiled and spoke her first word ("pretty...
Prehistoric Pompeii. Professor Blanc's discovery near Rome not only predates Homer but may even date back to Java man, who roamed the Southeast Asiatic area in the early part of the glacial epoch. A professor of human paleontology...
Good Morning, Miss Dove (20th Century-Fox) takes a tedious two hours to say good night. A tear-stained biography of a grade-school teacher, it stars Jennifer Jones as the town's prim disciplinarian whose glacial tones can make a hardened hoodlum jump to attention. One fine morning, Jennifer gets a pain in her back and. as she awaits medical attention, launches into the first of a series of flashbacks that show her renouncing her true love (she has to pay back some $11,-ooo her ever-loving daddy embezzled), helping a Polish immigrant to learn English...
...American Negroes, Author Baldwin does not pretend to have found the good, free life in Europe. On the contrary. He tells how, in Paris, he was clapped into jail at Christmastime when a prankster friend left a stolen sheet in his hotel room. Baldwin describes in chilling detail the glacial speed of French due process of law, the dank, verminous cells, the human derelicts ("faces the color of lead and the consistency of oatmeal''), and the laughter of the French court which released him, "the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from...