Word: neanderthalic
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...told the zoologists that the stooping, bent-kneed, apelike stance of Neanderthal man was a libelous misconstruction. About 1911, said Dr. Cave, French Paleontologist Pierre Marcelin Boule fitted together a Neanderthal skeleton found in France. He did not allow for the fact that the bones belonged to an old Neanderthaler who suffered from arthritis. Recently Dr. Cave himself examined those same bones. With age and arthritis properly allowed for, the Neanderthaler looked better. His face may have been brutish, and his body a trifle too hairy for modern tastes, but he probably walked like modern men and stood as straight...
Newspaper Days. Still in hock up to his eyebal's, Fox needed ready cash to run the Post. Up to then, the Post had been a strident critic of Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Paul A. Dever, running for reelection. Dever arranged for his friend Bernard Goldfine to extend Fox...
As Jordan meets other Phoenix Islanders, she begins to feel that only the sun, sea and sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to...
The missing element in the book is, of course, the quality of thought. Hemingway's "dumb oxen" did not remain dumb, because Hemingway, after all, was capable of thought. Not so the sports-jacketed, impressively cicatriced authors who still follow Hemingway out of the Land of Letters into the...
Actor Quinn emotes piteously with his left eye (his right one is matted shut by makeup that realistically puffs, thickens and distorts his entire head to a sub-Neanderthal bestiality), and it seems a shocking breach of manners when Esmeralda, Quasimodo's barefooted gypsy love (amiably played by Gina...