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...proponents of the new theory themselves admit, it is still only theory. They are not working with fossil teeth and jaws but with habits and customs that naturally left no physical trace. All that they have guessed about man's biological history remains to be proved. But the guesses carry many implications. Perhaps the most significant is that civilization's splendid institutions owe a part of their balance to the wily jungle primate still surviving beneath man's cultural veneer. He is really a part of the design. His contribution, only just beginning to be perceived...
...infected during a 1915-26 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, the virus of which disappeared in 1931. The virus may have damaged or lain dormant in the part of the brain that controls the movements affected by Parkinsonism. A telling point in favor of their hypothesis: Poskanzer and Schwab can trace only one Parkinsonism victim born since...
...theater lights dim. The audience hushes. It is that tingling, anticipatory moment before the curtain rises. Suddenly, bouzouki music shreds the air, and in orchestra seat D-113 Jean Kerr says with a trace of apprehension: "Sounds like we are back at Zorbd." The fear proves groundless. True, the initial setting is Greece, but the play, Forty Carats, is a frothy French farce from Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, the team that wrote Cactus Flower. It is a comedy of new marital modes and manners, precisely the sort of show that people always say they want...
There is no trace of swagger in Cozza's voice, only the solemn selfassurance resulting from sixteen consecutive victories spanning almost two complete seasons...
...square as an unsoaked sugar cube. Reading him today is like taking a guided tour through the seven circles of the political hell that Western Europe built for itself on the bases of the Depression, (the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the cold war. There is no trace here of the characteristic vices of the political intelligentsia of his day ("The ching that frightens me about the modern intelligentsia is their inability to see that human society must be based on common decency, whatever the political and economic forms may be"). NOT is there rhetoric, or the striking...