Word: grounds
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Suitable Deluge. Sobeloff's decision apparently struck a nerve. Last week Virginia's Attorney General Robert Y. Button asked for a rehearing before the full bench on the ground that the case is "of major importance." The court, said Button, has "now substituted its judgment for that of experienced penal administrators." Button cited testimony by Cunningham, who is now director of the Division of Corrections, that "if a Catholic boy came to me, or a Protestant boy came to me, saying he represented a certain group of prisoners and refused to give me their names, he would...
...Morse's 30-ft. acacias has suddenly become "God's tree," an object of awe and veneration. That particular acacia lost its anonymity in mid-July when a stream of tea-colored "water" began spewing from a knothole in a limb 25 ft. above the ground. Local Mexican-Americans soon saw religious significance in the "crying tree"; they began dropping by to touch it, rub its mysterious fluid on their bodies, and even to drink the stuff...
What Henry seeks is a hole in the ground; what he finds in Lorabelle is a way to the light. What Lorabelle seeks is a castle in the air; what she finds in Henry is a way back to earth. Though they marry, Henry and Lorabelle at first refuse their double destiny. When she imagines a life full of love and beauty, Henry scoffs at her "elegant mirages" and pulls back into his hole. When he pulls back too far, she flies off to her air castle and shares it with a succession of inappropriate inamorati: a thieving thespian...
...does man go to war? For a variety of reasons, says Ardrey, but none more compelling than his fierce atavistic desire to regain or to defend ground that he considers his own. "The principal cause of modern warfare," writes Ardrey, "arises from the failure of an intruding power correctly to estimate the defensive resources of a territorial defender." This is the same as saying that Japan would not have attacked the U.S. had it known it would lose-and that is precisely what Ardrey does say. He says many other things equally indigestible and undemonstrable: that the lower animals have...
Still, there is plenty to think about in The Territorial Imperative, for the search for first causes is an exhilarating adventure. Ardrey can serve as a valuable if treacherous bridge for the stimulated reader who wants to gain more reliable anthropological ground. And if serious anthropologists persist in complaining that Ardrey is trespassing on their territory, let them consider the wolf...