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Though CBS will have to scratch two of its top Sunday prime-timers, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Mission: Impossible, the network is undoubtedly delighted with the arrangement. The sponsor, Xerox, is inserting only two commercials into the 2½-hour play. The Royal Shakespeare Company, which Hall helped turn into Britain's most distinguished repertory company, may eventually give CBS as many as 20 plays for U.S. television and for later release as feature films. At present, Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Visit) are working together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Specials: Prime Time for the Bard | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...nature promiscuous, but works hard in the opposite direction." How then did the family structure evolve? The answer, suggest the ethologists, has a great deal to do with the uncertain history of the development of man's only major biological specialization-his brain. From a scratch start with the simians, this marvelous cultural device grew threefold in man in one million years-an evolutionary rate of unprecedented rapidity. Asks Fox: "Did the growth of the brain lead to the capacity for greater social complexity, or vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Ethology: That Animal That Is Man | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Today's meet should be a toss-up, according to Marion. M.I.T. is like Harvard, he said, in that both have to teach their players from scratch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh Hoopsters Lose; Icemen Face B.U. | 12/11/1968 | See Source »

...Days at Peking--The Boxer Rebellion filmed in Spain with Dame Flora Robson as a wily Chinese, and Charlton Heston and the never-to-be-sufficiently studied Ava Gardner as doomed lovers. Nicholas Ray's last film is neither up to scratch nor all his (second-unit director Andrew Marton took over when Ray fell ill); but anything by the director of Rebel Wihtout a Cause, Party Girl, and Johnny Guitar is top-notch film-making by anyone's standards. At CARPENTER CENTER, Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...more than any other college in the country. The great thing about breaking a winning streak is that the team that loses has to start all over again. It is as though those other 16 games did not count, and Yale is beginning again, back to 1701, from scratch...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Toward a Theory of Destruction | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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