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Although the moon has lately been giving up many of its ancient secrets to prying spacecraft, it has clung stubbornly to one-the genesis of its own existence as an earth satellite. With monotonous regularity, scientists have punched holes in theories that the moon was torn, Eve-like, from the...
THE mythmaker is a primitive. He molds his fantasies out of primordial impulses that are common to all men. In an age of reality, he is a rarity, for he celebrates an innocence that does not mix well with the times. Walt Disney was such a man, molding myths and...
Most people would agree that mankind, despite painful lapses, has brought civilization a long way from the primordial rule of tooth and claw. Barrington Moore Jr. is not at all that sanguine. His view of civilization, in fact, is downright gloomy. It is Moore's thesis in this difficult...
Primordial Matter. Though the new findings add greatly to man's skimpy knowledge of comets, they will only whet the appetite of astrophysicists, many of whom believe that the fiery-tailed bodies are well preserved condensations of the primordial matter from which the sun and planets were formed. If...
Oraison's latest tangle with the Vatican is over The Human Mystery of Sexuality, a current French bestseller which carries a bishop's imprimatur. The 158-page book focuses on what Oraison terms "the primordial importance" of sexuality to identity, ridicules moralistic language that censures erotic thoughts as...