Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noises -for his caretaker. Sometimes animal passions become actively embarrassing; recently, while a repairman was crouching in an emu's enclosure, the huge, ostrichlike Australian bird decided that the intruder was a female emu and behaved accordingly. At times the sexual play verges on the pathetic. "We have seen instances," says Hediger, who is also a professor of animal psychology and biology at Zurich University, "where tortoises have regarded the shoe of their keeper as a mate...
Unfortunately, few of the roles for Negroes that are being so hurriedly written into next fall's shows will have any individuality or credibility. Executive Producer Paul Monash, who next month will bring the first Negro family onto Peyton Place, says: "All the Negroes I've seen on TV are colorless-absolutely devoid of character, humor or idiom. They are prideless Negroes, castrated men and desexed females. These people are really gilded Rochesters...
...shone in Vlaminck's pictures with greater fire and brilliance than in those of any fellow Fauve, including Matisse, Braque or Derain. Two dozen of these early paintings recently gathered together for an exhibit by Manhattan Dealer Klaus Perls showed the public what had rarely been seen by any but a few diligent art historians: Vlaminck's early work, taut with a passionate precision, is the finest of his career (see color...
...that pervade the film become more tragic in retrospect: Madigan's domestic squabbles are at first banal, finally significant because Madigan dies before they can be resolved in such manner as usually satisfies audiences; his wife's final lament for her dead husband rings hollow because we have only seen her nagging him and his death locks her in the role forever in our minds. Siegel refuses to resolve the personal problems set-up during the film, and although we hope for positive change, we are often left with ambiguity or permanent limbo (Russell's relationship with his mistress...
...took his Ph.D. degree at Harvard with Carroll Williams, professor of Biology. When asked about Kafatos, Williams said "Fotis is in a group by himself. I've never seen anyone with such a green thumb for identifying the critical phenomenon and devising the necessary experiment." Williams relates how one of his colleagues, after watching Kafatos present his findings, said "God may be dead but Zeus isn't." Williams used to be one of the heads of the developmental biology course Kafatos now teaches with John G. Torrey, professor of Botany. But "Kafatos is such an enchanting and lovable teacher that...