Word: infantability
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...heart were not a tender creature toward his kind, a loving creature in a peculiarly special way, he would long since have left his bones to the wild dogs that roved the African grasslands where he first essayed the great adventure of becoming human. The human infant enters the world in a peculiarly helpless and undeveloped condition. Without the willingness of loving adults to spend years in nursing the helpless offspring they have produced, man would long since have vanished from the earth." Watching the stars, he brings the trained mind of the evolutionist to bear on the possibility...
...contrast to Vopos, who have been known to look the other way during an escape, the Saxons shoot to kill without a second thought. Even so, an average of ten East Germans a day leap, crawl, dig or swim their way to freedom. One couple even floated its infant across the Havel River in a bathtub. Since the Wall went up a year ago, 12.000 refugees have made it safely out of the Soviet zone; 49 who tried to reach West Berlin have died...
...nominal fee) and delivers translations to foreign publishers. Last year the entire operation cost Franklin a mere $1,500,000, which came from U.S. and private grants and the 10% royalty that foreign publishers pay after a book is put on sale. The net effect is a boost for infant publishing industries in countries that are afflicted with "undercapitalization and unsophistication...
...graveyard. Read the small stones: Frontier Circus, Oct. 5, 1961-May 24, 1962; Cain's Hundred, Sept. 19, 1961-May 8, 1962; Father of the Bride, Oct. 6, 1961-May 18, 1962; Bus Stop, Oct. 1, 1961-March 25, 1962. But curiously, there are fewer this year. The infant mortality rate among television shows has gone into a slight decline. TV's mediocrity is apparently becoming institutional, and some programs are being kept alive for next season that would have been kicked into oblivion in the more ruthless years...
Bleak Ending. The author's dawn men are a tiny, dejected band-six adults, one of them a moron (his mind makes few telepathic pictures), a small girl and an infant. Hungrily they trudge to their upland hunting grounds at the end of winter. They know that their numbers a're fewer than in past years, but they do not know why. Neither does the reader, who is left to speculate on plagues and warfare. Golding gives no more information than is available through the eyes of the Neanderthals-a difficult technique, but well suited to evoking...