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...they were an aberrant strain, extinct 50,000 years ago. With the skill of an artist (and not, as is often the case in attempts of this kind, a taxidermist), Golding re-creates the Neanderthals and the dawn mist in which they lived. To the eye they are stubby, smallish, powerful near apes, covered with reddish fur. But they are dimly intelligent, although their minds do not work like those of Homo sapiens. In addition to the simple tools and religion that archaeology dictates, Golding gives them a rude telepathic sense-although he deals with this so restrainedly that...
Their names, if they were married, were Peg and Tom, Jane and Bill, Jeremy and Jennifer. Single men were always called Brick or Brock or Bruce. Unmarried girls needed a gallant name; it was usually Helen. They lived in a smallish, unidentified city in an immemorial Indiana. The men spoke to each other in a language called kidding ("You old son of a gun"), and the women talked somberly about "our marriage'' as if marriage were a large, fragile china object one kept in the front hall. They led decent, busy lives, and the worst sinners among them...
...Turkey. In his 31 years as a Foreign Service officer, Ohio-born Kohler has rarely made headlines. He even looks far more like the bank teller he once was than like the suave, striped-pants stereotype of a professional diplomat; smallish and rumpled, he speaks in a flat Midwestern accent and wears indifferently tailored brown or blue suits. But he is regarded in Washington as a highly competent operator, and his considerable experience with the Russians goes back a long way. He speaks Russian, which has become a prerequisite for the top Moscow job. He was assigned to Moscow...
Given a table, tuning fork, piles of music and the Sestetto Italiano Luca Marenzio one has a delightful evening of Italian madrigals from the late sixteenth century. Add Sanders Theatre and last night's smallish but enthusiastic audience, and Adriano Banchieri's madrigal comedy La Barca di Venezia per Podova becomes the absurd and absorbing musical work it has been for three and a half centuries...
...runways two miles long. But Seattle's Boeing Aircraft Co. is getting ready to put the big birds on a skimpy diet. Boeing's latest passenger plane, the three-jet 727, will be fitted with special wing flaps designed to get in and out of smallish airports with ease...