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...commander's suspicions are aroused when Morbius discloses that all the other colonists were murdered by a telluric demon that seems to inhabit the planet. The commander is wondering whether he should arrest the scientist, when a beautiful girl (Anne Francis) walks in. She is Morbius' daughter, Altaira, and she has never seen an available male before. The captain, who has not seen a woman for more than a year, decides to give Morbius a chance and Altaira...
...clock: Baba Yaga chases Hugh McLean across the tundra up to the Decembrist revolt or thereabouts. The speedy trip is accomplished in Sever 31, and is called Slavic 149. Downstairs before lunch Faust and Mephistopheles will inhabit Sever 1 as Professor Atkins offers his biennial course on the Faust legend. German is required, but the reading list is not too long...
...outposts of the royal Laotian army (TIME. July 25). Communist food seizures, for shipment to Ho's hungry Red River Delta, have created such widespread famine that the U.S. International Cooperation Administration this month began air-dropping 1,000 tons of rice to the 100,000 peasants who inhabit the region. Even the International Control Commission, made up of representatives of Canada. India and Communist Poland -with its Polish members dissenting-has complained of Pathet Lao activities...
...keen observations, whether of animal or plant, carry mystical overtones. He would insist with Thoreau that "this curious world which we inhabit ... is more to be admired and enjoyed than it is to be used." Indeed, he takes up the cudgels against man's shortsighted ambition to "control nature." That whole concept, he asserts, is false. Modern man needs greater understanding of "the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part." The idea of a world for man's use only is unrealizable. Long ago Alexander Pope summed it up with...
...Tocqueville said: "In democratic times the public frequently treat authors as kings do their courtiers; they enrich and despise them ..." Few American authors are despised these days; few are very rich. They reflect the 20th century's leveling forces: economically-as well as literarily-most of them inhabit a great, grey middle stratum...