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...thousands of investigators. "Sociobiology really is a scientific discipline and not a view of nature," he says, while Spencer set out to find a scientific order justifying the state of his society. Wilson says his own synthesis is both objective and dispassionate. "Spencer gave an explanation of a splendid Victorian world," Wilson said. "We are now dealing with the precise theories on the evolution of altruism...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: 'Sociobiology'--An Old Synthesis | 1/30/1976 | See Source »

Image of Horror. The movie is vastly ambitious, but it is also jaunty and diverting. There is time for an affection ate send-up of Bertolucci: Giannini's en trance into a Neapolitan music hall, stupidly splendid with a cigarette holder and snap-brim hat, recalls The Conform ist. There are some good visual puns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Charnel Knowledge | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...both stirring and excruciating: "We both of us want a marriage that is a tremendous living thing, always alive, always hot, not dead and easy in parts as most marriages are. We ask a great deal of rife, don't we? Perhaps we shall get it; then, how splendid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Infinite Strange Shapes | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...Sierra Madre blowing away in the Mexican wind. Huston includes many of the visual asides and unguarded gestures - like a village chieftain preparing for a beheading by sharpening his sword on a stone wall - that have always given his work such rich texture. Caine and Connery make a splendid couple of cronies, full of bluff and swagger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rogues' Regiment | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...there is more to Pete Fitzsimmons the runner than just a list of accomplishments. "He has a splendid attitude, he likes to run, and he is oriented to working hard and steady," McCurdy says. "But even more, he's a great competitor...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Fitzsimmons Takes Success in Stride | 11/26/1975 | See Source »

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