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EDVARD MUNCH-Granville, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th. Nothing is innocent in these demonic graphics from the private hell of Norway's greatest artist. Simian males are seduced by redheaded vampires in an orgy of richly colored woodcuts and aquarelle lithographs, betraying Munch's mixture of lust and hate for woman...
...local laboratory, and Mérou finds that his dim-witted cellmates take weeks to learn to salivate when the keeper blows a whistle at mealtimes and never really catch on to the trick of piling boxes on one another to get the tasty reward offered by the simian scientists. Mérou, however, dumfounds the experts with his speed and disconcerts them by learning the simian language, something that no human has ever done before...
...virologists and Dr. Bernice Eddy of the National Institutes of Health, who reported similar results, had to go back to hamsters to start their cancers growing, but there was no doubt that they got their effects with a virus, known variously as the vacuolating agent and SV (for simian virus) 40. It is the first primate virus shown to cause cancer in any animal...
...lecture platform and "a certain ruthlessness," Huxley loved to bandy texts and split hairs with the theologians. He signed letters in mock church Latin, was "Father-in-Science" to disciples, and called himself the episcopophagous (bishop-eating) Huxley. When "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, twitted him on his "simian ancestry," Huxley smoothly played the wounded gentleman and made the cleric look like...
Stocky (5 ft. 6 in.), with a simian gait, a large, handsome head and a loud, clear voice that was usually raised in argument, Orde Wingate saw himself eternally at war with "the tyranny of the dull mind," i.e., nine-tenths of his immediate military superiors and nearly all army regulations. When he was passed over for an appointment to the Staff College, Wingate strode to a Yorkshire hilltop where General Sir Cyril Deverell, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, stood in the midst of his aides, watching maneuvers. Wingate saluted and gave the astounded general a severe talking...