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That notion was scotched when women were admitted. But the goal of greatness persisted. Academic standards have been kept high: this year Oxy accepted fewer than half of its applicants, and it looked for more than good College Board test scores (the freshman mean: 615 out of a possible 800...
THE INHERITORS (233 pp.)-William Golding-Harcourt, Brace & World ($4.50).
Imagination is a word that scarcely occurs in modern criticism, perhaps because it has an amateurish, imprecise sound, and perhaps also because there is not often an occasion to use it. Not many of today's authors are good imaginers. One of the few is Britain's William...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica deals cursorily with the Neanderthals, merely giving their physical characteristics (thickset physiques, sloping foreheads, receding chins) and observing that they were an aberrant strain, extinct 50,000 years ago. With the skill of an artist (and not, as is often the case in attempts of this kind...
Bleak Ending. The author's dawn men are a tiny, dejected band-six adults, one of them a moron (his mind makes few telepathic pictures), a small girl and an infant. Hungrily they trudge to their upland hunting grounds at the end of winter. They know that their numbers...