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Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author piles up details with the enthusiasm of a squirrel in autumn and almost succeeds in burying a fascinating biography of the scourge of Babbittry, who, throughout his years of self-exile, never really left Gopher Prairie...
Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author piles up details with the enthusiasm of a squirrel in autumn, and almost succeeds in burying a fascinating biography of the scourge of Babbittry, who, throughout his years of self-exile, never really left Gopher Prairie...
Goats undergo the surgeon's knife for nerve-grafting experiments. Pigtailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, marmosets and rhesus monkeys figure in cancer and behavioral studies. Horses and sheep provide blood for scientists anxious to study rabies and staphylococcal infections. Rice rats, Mongolian gerbils and Egyptian spiny mice are used in nutrition studies; some mice are inbred for as many as 99 generations so that researchers can study the mechanisms involved in tissue transplants. Venus clams by the dozen sacrifice their hearts to the study of the chemistry of the nervous and muscular systems...
Watching old Hollywood cartoons on television, children would see the same ones again and again, while their parents gradually lost their minds. Then last season adults began to notice something called Rocky and His Friends, which was new and actually amusing. Rocky, a squirrel, was uncute enough, but it was one of his friends that particularly attracted attention-a blanket-eared, wall eyed, stupid-looking, oafish moose. This moose-whose mother in a flash of lyricism had named him Bullwinkle-made it so big with the big people that he now has his own show in prime evening time...
...rips up the furniture, twists the cat's tail, yanks the clock's pendulum and exults: "I'm free-naughty and free." In the second scene, the animals gather to threaten the child, forgive him only after he has come to the aid of an injured squirrel...