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...Britain's Political Quarterly, Dr. Jacob Bronowski, of the British National Coal Board, tries to explain why scientists are viewed with suspicion by most nonscientists. "The scientist," says Bronowski, "is not only disliked, but also distrusted." Governments treat the scientist as "indispensable, but unreliable, a hangdog hangman who has the bad manners to be good at war work and the impertinence to find it distasteful. The public thinks that he has no conscience, and his security officer fears that he has two consciences . . . He is unhappy between his scientific creed and his social loyalty: between, that is, the long...
...give both Gaston and the reader plenty of chance for reflection about the various nature of honor and man's view of her. Moral: black and white are the most deceiving colors. Says the ship's priest: "I have seen so many edifying scoundrels and so many hangdog Christians that I can no longer recognize the mark of grace at first sight...
...often irritated me." The full measure of her reaction is perhaps carried in her last page, where she describes her arrival in the Paris she loves. "How old the customs men were, how crumpled their uniforms! They did not seem proud to be French citizens; there was a hangdog look about them . . . The people are poorly dressed; the women have colorless, frizzy hair, the men grey faces, and they walk as if defeated . . . The weather was grey. Paris seemed numb ... I would have to relearn France and get back into my own skin...
Pride of the Family (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) offers Old Vaudevillian Paul Hartman as a bumbling average man whose well-meaning efforts to do right by his wife (onetime Cinemactress Fay Wray) and two children create no end of confusion and misunderstandings. Hartman's memorable hangdog face and ability to make the most of his harassed-father role raises the show above the common level of television's glut of family comedies. Sponsors: Armour & Co. and Bristol-Myers...
From Tigers to Torsos. Up to 1905, Sculptor Matisse is reasonably realistic and plainly the student of Rodin. There is a precise, crouched Tiger done in tense, slashing planes, a half-sized Slave, weary and hangdog. His women are more expressionistic, seem more like mere sketches for future work. His nude Madeleine, Nude Leaning on the Hands and Reclining Nude in Chemise are roughly scooped out to emphasize a side-slung hip, the languid sag of a relaxed body...