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Miss Stapleton does an excellent job of conveying the transition back to a sentient life; she is alternately wild and spent, never quite understanding the world around her. The object of her renewed affections is played by Eli Wallach, who is adequate in his clownish impersonation of the Marlon Brando-type lover...
...Only a truly sentient artist, moved deeply and genuinely by the events in the lives of those men & women of the Old Testament, could have reanimated that ancient spirituality so luminously...
...because two of his native (Negro) employes had separated 30 live lizards from their valuable skins. Cruelty to animals is an offense under South African law. But the case raised a nice point of biolegalism: is a lizard an animal? Ruled Magistrate C. J. Humphreys: "An animal is a sentient being which takes food in a digestive cavity, has the power of voluntary motion, and a means of reproduction and respiration. A lizard has all these." Therefore Shopkeeper Alter was guilty of cruelty to lizards, was fined...
...many of its correspondences, dreams, and borderland apprehensions of a bottomless past, this book has the gooseflesh resonance of a well-made poem, full of dim, sentient suggestions of a religious fatality. Its whole treatment is somber, muted, ardent. As a confused, cryptic painting-a portrait of a personal absorption rather than a public communication -it is moving. Yet, within its arbitrary framework, it convincingly clarifies nothing about destiny...
...Fernel did not hold man apart from nature. Plants too had souls-vegetative souls. Animals had vegetative and sentient souls. Man had a vegetative, sentient and-uniquely-a rational soul. Man was thus nature's greatest work...