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...Alaskan Indians and Eskimos. The Eskimos' readings were a bit blurred because of language difficulties, but all three racial groups tested said "Ouch!" or its equivalent at the same amount of heat, i.e., when the skin temperature hit 113° F. Yet an Eskimo has been known to hack off his own gangrenous foot to save his leg. The conclusion: the differences between races and cultures must lie in the "psychical adjunct" part of Sherrington's definition-in the reaction to pain, not in the pain as such...
...lines of the cast at the beginning are often facetious and sometimes excruciatingly funny. After the introduction, however, the players settle down in their roles, and though they never lose spontaneity, they appear to hack around much less. The development of the story, written by Arlene Grimes, Jake Severance, and Mary Carleton, is conventional, but Earle Edgerton's staging shows several imaginative touches. The songs are never really captivating, except for "You Gotta Work for Your Wishes," and "Flowers Are Dancing A Minuet," the theme-song finale which the Children's Theatre has used for its last three shows...
...reason is that though the Caroline novels are blatantly aphrodisiacal in intent, they are more than mere buff in content. Author Cecil Saint-Laurent is a serious historian as well as an able hack...
...humanistic than either godly or Marxian, sounds loudest at film's end, when the town is inundated by a flood, and the depressing suggestion is advanced that only such a great natural disaster can put an end to the eternal quarrels of Communist and capitalist, priest and party hack...
...National Assembly's organizing sessions, the Communists politely withdrew their own candidate, aged hack Marcel Cachin, and made possible the speedy election of 71-year-old Socialist André Le Troquer as Assembly president (Speaker). Without their support, he had been a poor third in the voting...