Word: neanderthalic
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Vegetarians and feminists will not be pleased. Neither will readers who, while granting Ardrey the run of his special territory, require more rigor with their speculation. He frequently exhibits what might be called the rhetorical imperative. For example: "Are the qualities that we regard as uniquely human the consequences of...
The hero, Justice Daniel Snow (Melvyn Douglas) is inspired by William O. Douglas. The heroine, Ruth Loomis, played by Jean Arthur, is quite simply hatched from the current foofaraw over women's lib. She is the first woman to be appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court. Her late...
No one who appears before the Avedon camera gets a guarantee of sympathetic treatment. Ezra Pound is captured as a tortured soul. Avedon is gentle with Marilyn Monroe, but Oscar Levant is shown as a fading Neanderthal man. The 40-ft.-wide mural of the eleven-member American Mission Council...
The play is a plum for the actor who plays Ui. Al Pacino would be a hand-in-glove fit for the part. Not so. Physically, he slopes about the stage in a Neanderthal manner and adopts a metronomic, tongue-darting tic. He is good at evoking the image of...
Leonard warned that William B. Shockley, professor of engineering and applied science at Stanford, and others are reviving the "Neanderthal argument" that blacks are inherently less intelligent than whites.