Word: humankind
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...Here they are spelled out according to the conventions of steam-heated movie melodrama, but the film still turns the guesswork into good grim fun. Competition within the group begins in earnest after they find refuge in a hillside cave. While a herd of baboons observes the vagaries of humankind, the six rapidly dwindle. The hardy pilot (Nigel Davenport) sets off to seek help. An old German (Harry Andrews) and a professorial type (Theodore Bikel) are eliminated one way or another by the fittest male, Stuart Whitman, who is left to look out for his rifle, his woman (Susannah York...
...Swift came raging out of the peat bogs to cry doom and damnation on the idolatrous race of men. He is God's angry man, a prophet of the wrath to come who screams with infernal glee as he opens the vials of vituperation on the heads of humankind. His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust. His wit is an indentured imp that leaps to any bidding-it can tickle the funny bone, attack with acid, fry living flesh on a deadpan, reach down the throat of a corpse and come up with a ghastly guffaw. His language...
...Leaguer, however, must see New York as a college of electives, extending to him the paradoxical gifts of privacy and participation, of loneliness and union with the ultimate queerness of humankind. This is because New York is so constructed as to soak up everything without (necessarily) inflicting a single event on its denizens. Which strikes us as odd, considering it is the worst-run metropolis in the world, or at least the most unmanageable...
...like a Log. There is no single best position for falling asleep, though the Encyclopaedia Britannica says all humankind adopts an approximately horizontal position. This is in contrast with birds, which sleep standing on one leg, with beak tucked under wing. Most people sleep on their sides, spending more time on one than the other, and tend to bend the hips and draw up the knees a little, the better to relax. Sleeping supine is likely to cause snoring, which may wake the sleeper himself, besides disturbing others...
Even before Robert Herrick cast his eye at his retreating Julia and memorialized "that brave vibration each way free," most of humankind has admired women from both sides. Americans, for reasons that are obscure, have in recent years kept their eyes chiefly in front, and above the waist. The U.S. female bottom, in fact, has been treated like an embarrassment - flattened, cinched in, and obfuscated into the monobuttock, which appears in nature only in the wasp and other unpleasant creatures. U.S. girdle makers long ago discovered that for export overseas they had to provide a different treatment of fundamentals, minus...