Word: pallidity
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...fifth installment of a series that with any luck will not include a sixth. The humans are the scarred survivors of nuclear disaster, led by Severn Darden as the kind of consciously hammy villain that kids love to giggle at during the Saturday matinee. The apes make a curiously pallid bunch of heroes. Roddy McDowall, a veteran of three other Ape epics, appears as Caesar, the idealistic ape who led his species out of bondage to man with a few fiery speeches and some sensible ideas about equality. In Battle, Caesar is trying to turn his no tions into...
Just before I howled myself awake, I saw something in the faint phosphorescent light. It is that pallid vision that causes me to write this report, for whether my heart can stand one more night of dreams is most uncertain. As the cowled figure grinned and gibbered, I saw his unmistakable prognathous jaw and wide, habitually surprised eyes. And I knew why so many writers have so assiduously emulated How ard Phillips Lovecraft, for hidden in the glistening convolutions of the eldritch imagination, he lives and he commands...
...corseted movements, the crescendos of temper, the harsh, mesmeric voice grinding out its long postprandial diatribes against traitors, smokers and meat eaters. The words rebound from the elephant-colored walls of the bunker as once they had echoed down the parade grounds of the Third Reich. Hitler's pallid hand, shaking from Dr. Morell's amphetamine capsules, spoons dollops of Schlag onto a slab of chocolate cake. The movie is the world's most overdocumented Grand Guignol, the phantom of history's opera at bay in the foundations of the Fuhrer's falling theater...
...price of all products sold by a company more than 1.5% above the level of Jan. 10. During the 30 days, the COLC can reject the boost or investigate its justification-but if it does not move, the company will be free to make its increase. That is a pallid version of the system in effect during most of Phase II, when companies with sales of $100 million or more had to get explicit prior approval to make any price increases at all, and had to back their applications with detailed figures to prove that the boosts were forced...
Then he seems like one of the final mature specimens of a soon to start decaying profession. With or without a new ideology it is soon going to be impossible to do Plumb's sort of scholarship. Historians may repeat his efforts in increasingly pallid imitations, or they may strike off in a new direction under the cover of a revitalized ideology, but they will hardly reproduce Plumb's efforts. Liberal individualism has lost its cutting edge as an intellectual doctrine...