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Urban man lives with a hum always in his ears. During his working hours, he is subjected to the distant noise of traffic, the whistle of the air conditioner, the hum of the fluorescent lighting. At home, the washing machine and the dishwasher rumble, radios blare...
Thunderous Chirp. Far from being alarmed, acoustical engineers today are in favor of the low steady hum. "There should be an unobtrusive noise, constant and surflike," says Robert B. Newman, a partner in the Cambridge. Mass., acoustical engineering firm of Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc. Without it, the slightest sound can prove enormously distracting. Typical is the commuter who reads a book amid the accustomed clatter of the 5:42, yet is shaken out of bed when a robin chirps in the silence of a country morning...
What happens when one begins Children of Sanchez thinking, "Ho-hum, another anthropologist," is that after about five pages, one forgets all about concepts, and avidly enters into a gripping world of often unbearably real people. Yet while Lewis--I'm not sure purposely--redefines anthropology as dramatic novel, at the same time he continues in perhaps the most important ideological mainstream of anthropological thought: giving a voice, and dignity, to the backward and poverty-stricken peoples of the non-white world. An incomplete summary of the history of the discipline will serve to place Lewis' work in perspective...
...bikini-there's not much to it but it hits the right spots") might serve as an epitaph for laughter. As for the plot-the usual prefab fable about life in a California housing project-it is certain to make audiences respond with a ho-ho-ho-hum. Hope, a bestselling spicy storyteller, undertakes to investigate the sexual habits of the suburban female. Turner, a typical suburban female, gives aid and comfort. At the fade, Hope has his book, Turner has her man, and the customer has a question: Is this tripe necessary...
...disruption of nature's eternal cycle, the solitude of nature versus the Joneliness of modern alienated society, the threat of filling stations and ranch houses wiping out the last remnants of physical nature. Mary McCarthy was no longer giving a Hum 2 lecture, and the little ladies from the Adult Education League looked a little flustered. Then it came. Physical nature is being eradicated by man, so that only the cell, the final, (once) indestructible unit of life remains...