Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 8:40 one morning last week, Warren Deane Thomas, a 26-year-old Ohio State University graduate student and employee of the Columbus Zoo, walked into the monkey house to feed the animals. When he reached the cage of Christina, a nine-year-old, 280-lb. gorilla, he found her squatting listlessly in a far corner, indifferent to the hard-boiled egg he held. Then he saw why: on the floor squirmed a baby gorilla-probably the first ever born in captivity...
...Count Casimir Poliatoffsky" poses as a Polish nobleman and simultaneously claims to be descended from the Maya gods and the lost tribes of Israel, but he is actually half-Mexican. He once flopped as the star of a roller-skating show in Italy. Now he is a skilled grease monkey in a ship's engine room, and this uneven, offbeat first novel begins when one of the count's shipmates takes him home for dinner on a shore leave in New Orleans in the early 1900s. The shipmate's sister Hilda, an ash-blonde icicle, melts visibly...
...arrived in the U.S. in 1948: "It takes about two years to realize what America is like. Not the things you can buy, but the things you can say. I can say something about President Eisenhower, and nobody will lock me up. Felix, he is just like a monkey put in a box and released somewhere in Alaska...
...boiling, Writers Salomon and Richard Hanser lost or overlooked some of the decade's juicy memories, e.g., the Scopes "monkey" trial, marathon dancing, flagpole sitting, Billy Sunday, the bathing beauty, Florida's real-estate boom, the Sacco-Vanzetti case-even (unaccountably) the advent of radio broadcasting. But the '20s had flavor to spare, and Jazz Age catches the tangy essences that should send oldtimers on a sentimental binge and plunge the younger set into wistful incredulity...
...reasonably enlightened audience can agree on. The argument of playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee is simple: freedom of thought is better than bigotry. Although this point may not appear overly original, the two writers give it considerable dramatic intensity by recreating the celebrated 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial," where a small town school teacher was brought into court for teaching the "subversive" doctrine of evolution...