Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar to the Isrealis. Both countries are heavily intellectual groups set upon by less educated peoples who have superior numbers. "To borrow a phrase, the highly-civilized have been bombed back into living in caves," Mayer added. He pointed to the Biafrans' skill in setting up petroleum distilleries from scratch. "They are very inventive, and experiment constantly to find out how best to use their resources...
...voyeuristic escapism, it follows that Mia Farrow would succeed as a flower-nibbling, pseudo-mystical boy-girl and that Hoffman would see a psychoanalyst five days a week, no doubt to discuss his anxieties about the impending 1040. The sight of Farrow and Dustin salting down the scratch, the former looking like a sand-kicked 97-lb. weakling in Rosemary's Baby and the latter as a watered-down Holden Caulfield in The Graduate, is enough to confirm to this aging mind that when eccentricity and grotesquerie become the prime movers of modern society and grace the cover...
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...
...very next day, the show's producer and authors started to rewrite the show, practically from scratch. Within a week, the director, Peter Glenville, had been replaced (by Joe Layton). Within a month, a whole new first act was on stage. This is no small job, considering the complexities of putting together a Broadway musical...
...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...