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...share his feelings of excitement and wonder about the world of natural history. In "The Panda's Thumb" essay, for example, Gould tells us of his childhood adoration of pandas and how delighted he was "when the first fruits of our thaw with China went beyond ping pong to the shipment of two pandas to the Washington zoo. I went and watched with appropriate...
...poets and politicians, philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle with Charles de Gaulle. He also played Ping-Pong with Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg...
Airplane! is about as funny as you want it to be If you go ready to laugh at sight gags--control tower operators playing pong basketball on radar screens--some genuinely racist humor--in the form on two men speaking "jive"--and endlessly repeated jokes--"Surely you must be joking." "I told you not to call me Shirley."--then you'll enjoy the film. But don't go expecting Woody Allen or even Mel Brooks--there's something very anticlimatic about this film after all the media hype. As in most films where the plot is the background...
...center financially. A basement room decorated with film and travel posters is the center's Sobriety Society -the Soviet equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous. There a young reformed drunk is sanding wood for a remodeling program that will expand the society's facilities to include billiards and Ping Pong...
...Soviet Union now posed China's main threat. contacts with the West would be useful in reducing the dangers from the Soviets and they suddenly became receptive to diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties with other industrial powers: Western Europe, the United States, and Japan. In 1971, following a ping pong tournament in Nagoya, the Chinese orchestrated an enticing opening for selected Americans, and within the year Kissinger was in Peking paving the way for the Nixon visit...