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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corrupts mankind. His hunter-gatherers live in an idealized balance with nature; the Chigai are brutal villains because they keep animals as prisoners to be eaten. There are echoes here of William Golding's The Inheritors, in which Homo sapiens wipes out the noble Neanderthal. Golding's text was suited for the grim '50s. Williams' happier ending is blended for the granola '70s. R.Z. Sheppard
...eliminate the affliction Nuts and Crazy have developed an introduction to crew which will become part of next year's required Expository Writing course. Expos coordinator, Stu Dents Cantwrite, explained yesterday that the crew course will last about two weeks and will, through the use of a specially prepared text, introduce students to basic crew vernacular...
...text, not scheduled for publication until August, was unavailable. However, we have deviously obtained portions of the manuscript. The following are excerpts from the text...
...Carter huddled with his energy team in the White House Cabinet Room. Dressed in blue jeans and sipping ice water, Carter worried over each point in his message with Energy Aide James Schlesinger (TIME cover, April 4) and a handful of key staffers. Rosalynn stopped by to eye the text. "If I can understand it, everybody can," she explained later. "We changed a word here and there to be more easily understood." At 12:45 a.m., a weary President went off to work on the speech for another hour before going to bed. Schlesinger and his small staff retreated...
...wait-and-see attitude may have been prompted by biologists' charged that Trivers's work-and that of other sociobiologists, including E.O. Wilson, professor of Zoology and author of the controversila text "Sociobiology"-is unscientific or untestable...