Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sacred College of Cardinals the day after his election. Father Carl Peter, dean of religious studies at the Catholic University of America, finds one lasting point in that address, the endorsement of ecumenism as a "final directive." Says Peter: "I regard that as a promise that the rest of us will have to keep...
...demand; unite to smash the Bakke plan!" but the student kept his cool. After a three-hour lecture in molecular and cellular biology, a fellow student handed down his own Bakke decision: "He seems like a pretty nice guy. He's just stuck in class like the rest...
...gathering of some fresh evil on the part of his old enemies and begins investigating the case, an enterprise that takes him to many odd corners of the world and leads him-several plodding steps behind the audience-to the remarkable conclusion that somehow Mengele has succeeded where the rest of science has so far failed: he has cloned a man. And not just any old human being, but his hero, Adolf Hitler...
...rest, the producers have scoured the world for authentic locations, and Schaffner has shot the hell out of them; he seems to like using mirrors to enhance his imagery. One particularly admires Mengele's experimental station, which is up some jungle river in South America. It's a minor triumph of art direction...
...sapiens has done on Mauritius. By his own actions-and those of the animals he has introduced-man has already done away away the flightless black parrot, the giant Mauritian tortoise and the dodo, the huge bird whose very name has become synonymous with extinction. Now civilization threatens the rest of this island nation's rare birds and mammals...