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...some areas, we persevere in our slaughter of this earth's creatures. Whether it be the killing of leopards or baby seals or alligators or whales for economic reasons or the killing of thousands and thousands of sea fowl by unnecessary dumping of oil wastes at sea, this planet's wildlife suffers unto extinction at our hands...
Beneath the Planet of the Apes finds Astronaut James Franciscus searching frantically for Charlton Heston, who, it may be recalled, got hung up in a time warp in the original. Franciscus and Heston's girl friend (Linda Harrison) escape from the same simian world where humans are treated as lower animals and stumble onto an underground civilization of humanoid atom-bomb freaks. These thermonuclear trippers are about to launch civilization's last A-bomb against their ape rivals. Worse, they have Charlton Heston stashed in a cage so he cannot thwart their plan. Franciscus and Heston...
Neither is yet entirely prophetic. Nuclear energy has hardly brought to the earth the blessings of the sun, but neither has man-so far-made use of his power to destroy the planet he inhabits. For a quarter of a century now, he has lived with the Bomb, and since the catharsis of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, most Americans have given nuclear Armageddon little thought. A number of big companies, among them Jersey Standard and Shell Oil, went to great expense a few years back to secure bombproof alternate headquarters for use in case of nuclear attack...
...Commonplace books" were popular in the 18th and 19th century. Habitual readers kept journals by copying out passages from their favorite books and appending their reactions. Auden has been collecting his for much of his life. Quite correctly, he calls it a map of his secret planet. It is arranged in alphabetical order by a fascinating variety of subjects: "World, End of the"; "Owls, Barn"; "Prose, Purple"; "Prose, Annihilating." Under each heading come one or more literary quotations interspersed with Auden's comments. To anyone who has read Auden, the book reveals the sources of his poetry as fully...
...Sammler's Planet, Bellow...