Word: semihuman
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...Kortlandt, they inhabited African open plains, walked upright and used crude weapons to defend themselves effectively against carnivorous enemies. But when man's early ancestors developed spears and learned to kill at a distance, the chimps retreated into the dense rain forest. "In the forest," Kortlandt says, "the semihuman element in the behavior of apes faded away to a large extent...
...Painters Masson, Delvaux, Chagall, Tanguy, Magritte, Vail, Hirshfield. Of those canvases faintly visible behind the 7-ft.-high string cobweb was a huge new Freudian nightmare by Surrealist Ernst. Painted specially for the exhibition, Surrealism & Painting depicted a nest of multicolored bosomy birds, from whose naked, writhing limbs a semihuman arm emerged to paint its creator's conception of the disorderly universe. In the next room hung early canvases by de Chirico; also three recent Picassos, one of which, Les Femmes au Bord de la Mer, dwarfed, by its sheer creative power, every other painting in the show...
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