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...begat" section of the Bible, while shadows file on and off the stage leaving it a clutter of history. Eve is there knitting, lines of childbirth drawn onto her face, placid as her husband digs in the dirt beside her. A brash and warlike Cain returns, brandishing a spear, and in the mother son exchange that follows Dean throws so much of herself into the part, quivers with so much wise fire, that the most devastating line in the play by contrast is spoken simply and softly, unacted: "All you men, except only Adam, are my sons, or my sons...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Beautiful Monotony | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

Robertson began to catch fish, using a homemade spear fashioned from gadgetry in his wife's sewing basket. Obliging sea turtles, apparently attracted to the dinghy in hopes of mating with it, added to the larder. They also enabled Lyn, a nurse by profession, to administer turtle-oil enemas to restore bowel movements. Finally, after 37 days at sea, the six castaways were picked up by a passing Japanese tuna boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variously Notable | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

Innis charged that the white liberals who prevented the debate at Harvard had a "missionary complex" which led them to try to shelter blacks. "They're hiding us from the tiger, instead of giving us a gun and a spear and letting us go out and get the tiger," he said...

Author: By Steven Reed, | Title: Princeton Picks Up Harvard Reject | 11/17/1973 | See Source »

...They're hiding us from the tiger, instead of giving us a gun and a spear and letting us go out and get the tiger," he said...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Princeton Group Will Sponsor Controversial Shockley Debate | 11/14/1973 | See Source »

...have heard a lot of people say that he wasn't as tough on the big boys as he was on the spear carriers," says State Democratic Chairman James Sasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMITTEE: Frying Fish with The Folks at Home | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

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