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...ACTING is in general very good. Peter Wright has successfully avoided playing Berenger as a pathetic little idealist who has somehow wandered into an Ionesco play and gives him dignity beneath the sloth. His sleepy Yogi the Bear voice is highly suited for the role and very appealing. The only defect of his performance is that he doesn't seem changed enough and truly defiant in the end. His defiance may be a joke to the audience but it cannot be a joke to himself...
...their honor. In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the voyager Christian can reach the Celestial City-which 17th century artists sometimes pictured as a snugly fortified medieval town-only by conquering the fleshly temptations celebrated by today's turned-on idealists. Sidestepping sleepy-eyed Sloth and Presumption, Christian gains Utopia, or Paradise, by following the directions of the chaste damsels Discretion, Prudence, Piety and Charity...
Terrestrial life exists in many unexpected places. One variety of tiny plant survives in hot sulfuric acid; others flourish at 9°F. below zero. One species of algae grows only among the hairs of the three-toed sloth; another rides the backs of turtles. Now it appears that even clouds floating through the earth's atmosphere provide a precarious home for tiny organisms. Microbiologist Bruce Parker of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, writing in Natural History, argues that tiny animals and plants are feeding, growing and even reproducing high...
...huge numbers of cattle have denuded vegetation, thus driving away the deer upon which the lions feed. For another, some Hindu untouchables have no scruples about eating meat and regularly chase the lions away from kills to appropriate the meat for themselves. Also vanishing: India's blackbuck antelope, sloth bear and snow leopard...
...sense of loss. With a brisk, nononsense, let's-get-on-with-it approach, he sounds all the optimistic notes in The Three Sisters. The emphasis is on Chekhov's hopes that work and intelligence and energy will change and save the pre-Revolutionary Russia of sloth, injustice and decay. There is something ironic about...