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Rodger said the Massachusetts SPCA has objected to the Primate Center's use of restraining "chairs" in the course of research. Monkeys at the center are less tame than dogs used in research, he said, because often they come to the center as wild adults, making it necessary to sedate them before experimentation and then to immobilize them in a chair...
...effort to sort out the two, tame automobiles in residential areas and restore city streets as a place where children can play, old folks can sit, joggers can jog and friends and lovers can meet, began in 1976 in Delft, Holland. "We were trying to stop child murder," says Dutch City Planner Thijs de Jong...
...ride seemed a more conventional roller coaster with a hill, a turn, a rise, a dip, none of which looked terribly menacing. But as the line snaked its way around a plaster mountain placed there for atmospheric effect, "The Demon's" devilish aspects revealed themselves. I had seen the tame initial drop; I had not seen the loop that towered over the fake mountain. My first inclination was to leave the line, but embarrassment is a powerful force. I stayed put. A few minutes later I saw the next terror: another loop, this one even higher than the first; then...
Could not Heart of Darkness be offset by Heart of Lightness, in which Marlow narrates how the kindly Mr. Kurtz dedicated himself voluntarily to training the tribes along the Nile in personal hygiene? Might not The Call of the Wild be counterbalanced by The Call of the Tame, in which a big, clumsy, good-natured dog named Buck goes on a tour of Hollywood homes, including Lassie's? Who could be offended if An American Tragedy spun off a happy shadow called An American Comedy, in which Clyde Griffiths saves his girlfriend Roberta from drowning and receives...
Unlike Uncle Tom's Cabin or The Jungle, bestsellers that affected their times, the fiction chartbusters of the '70s seem tame indeed. Their mission, and their success, lies in anesthetizing the audience until it has only enough energy to do one thing: turn the page. Sutherland notes that the top ten novels of the '70s sold twice as many copies as the top ten of the 1960s. In this thirsty epoch, more readers than ever seem to need their psychic spirits. -By J.D. Reed