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Still, Adams' creatures are not entirely without foundation. The rabbit possesses uniquely repellent characteristics, among them the habit of consuming its own fecal pellets. But it also behaves in a manner that casts doubt upon the singularity of Homo sapiens. Young mated rabbits, for example, begin in a modest burrow but as their social standing in the community rises, they seek better quarters. Bucks are serially monogamous - with sporadic liaisons, possible when an attractive surplus doe hops into view. The couple's offspring are welcome to stay in the burrow after adolescence - provided that they remain docile...
...every problem he foresees, Berry has a glib but imaginative solution. He is convinced that if Homo sapiens could travel the long road from the first primitive experiments with agriculture to industrialization and space travel in less than 10,000 years, a comparable advance can surely be made during the next 100 centuries...
...Just as the traveling painters of the past century like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran imposed a particular vision of the West on our ancestors, Adams has imposed his on us. It is still America before its fall, a rugged paradise unmarred by the nasty litter and twitter of Homo sapiens. No living photographer of landscape seems able to match the amplitude of Adams' work - those vast and feathered skies, those muscular loops of river, those cannonball moons gravely pre siding over cliffs and rocks that, in their solidity of tone, seem like concretions of geological time...
What can save homo not-so-sapiens from himself? Not calls for "moral awakening" and "social action." Perhaps, just perhaps, the aggressive competitive instincts of modern man can be transferred from products to services, to education, to health care, to the arts. But Heilbroner cannot imagine these things being done voluntarily or without the "payment of a fearful price," particularly in freedom. Democracy, he suspects, is not up to the job, only " 'iron' governments" that are "capable of rallying obedience." Does this mean that an authoritarian state, the worst alternative only a few years ago, has become...
Find Your Way Home is the most outspoken and honest play about homo sexuality that has ever appeared on Broadway. Yet nothing is said or done onstage in order to titillate an audience of either gays or straights. British Play wright Hopkins makes three serious points and makes them well. The first of these affirms what Diana Trilling has written of D.H. Lawrence: "The sexual ity which Lawrence celebrated was mat ing. What the present generation means by love-making is coupling." Alan and Julian make love in Lawrence's sense...