Word: screens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Geneticist James Bonner appears on-screen to speculate about a test-tube superman race between the nations of the world a century from now, the uneasy viewer may feel that he is in the tank with those frogs. A man will "not "brazenly go out and propagate himself," Bonner predicts coolly, but will contribute sperm cells to a central bank, his heirs to be manufactured after his death if a committee decides that he has been a desirable and useful figure in society. On this forecast, echoing the ancient complaint against Plato's "Guardians," English Professor Ritchie Calder...
...State Department East Asian man would invite Fairbank, as the most respected China historian in the country, to advise the U.S. Government on new trouble in Kiangsi and elsewhere. His byline would appear in seven national magazines and his lined, gently smirking face would peer out from the T.V. screen on two networks...
Kessler, it might be noted, added to the wrestling match impression by duplicating the ineffectualness of the officials who scamper around the Arena Annex ring on Thursday nights. The TV screen showed Terrell pounding the champ below the belt, and there was Kessler on the blind side, running a second too late to a vantage point where he could see the foul...
...What keeps Big Boy grown up is some of the wackiest free-association camerawork since Richard Lester made the Beatles work A Hard Day's Night. When Bernard, wandering around town, sees the initials W.C. above a public toilet, his mind expands them into Warring Countries-whereupon the screen flashcuts to newsreels of battle; when the words change to Welcome Communists, Russians pass in review. A scrawl in the subway, "Niggers Go Home," reminds him of My Heart's in the Highlands; bigotry is changed to beauty as the Scottish hills abruptly fill with Negroes frugging...
...What keeps Big Boy grown up is some of the wackiest free-association camerawork since Richard Lester made the Beatles work A Hard Day's Night. When Bernard, wandering around town, sees the initials W.C. above a public toilet, his mind expands them into Warring Countries - whereupon the screen flashcuts to newsreels of battle; when the words change to Welcome Communists, Russians pass in review. A scrawl in the subway, "Niggers Go Home," reminds him of My Heart's in the Highlands; bigotry is changed to beauty as the Scottish hills abruptly fill with Negroes frugging...