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...expression is ferretlike. Brain surgery last October for a blood clot deprived him of his elaborately curled silver locks, making his looks even fiercer. Though he has no known history of any leg ailment, he constantly brandishes a cane as if it were a weapon. A teetotaler and vegetarian, Menon, 64, dresses with Savile Row impeccability at the U.N.; at home in India, he wears a loose-fitting, collarless jibbah in which, says one Western observer, "he looks like Boris Karloff playing John the Baptist...
...Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike, Campbell moved to Canada seven years ago, has become a Canadian citizen, lives in Stratford, Ont., where he is a steady performer and occasional director of the Festival Theater. A strapping, 200-lb. man with curly red hair, he is a vegetarian and a pacifist; in World War II he filed as a conscientious objector. "For a pacifist,'' he says, assaying his present performance as a tribal general, "I thrust a mean spear.'' He does...
...fascinated by South African Anthropologist Raymond A. Dart, discoverer of Australopithecus, a man-ape who lived about 750,000 years ago. Ardrey was deeply impressed by Dart's contention that the small-brained Australopithecus used antelope bones as clubs and that these weapons changed him from a vegetarian into a successful predator and allowed him to develop into true, big-brained man. On this narrow foundation, Ardrey builds a wide-swinging theory that man, including modern man, is naturally a killer and that weapons are his creator and his dearest love. Writes Ardrey: "Man emerged and triumphed over...
...these new-style heretic hunters is being fanned by a number of antiquarians. Dean of them all is tall, gaunt Déodat Roche, 79, a former magistrate of Arques, whose lifelong dedication to spreading the Cathar gospel, organizing pilgrimages to Montségur, and following the strict vegetarian regimen of his heretic ancestors has earned him the nickname "the Cathar Bishop." More active is Sociology Professor René Nelli of the University of Toulouse ("the vicar of Catharism"), who lectures on the subject all over France and has been commissioned by the French government to collect relics and documents...
...physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning to ask why the mild printer has to take all this, Author Narayan-himself a Hindu, a vegetarian, and a small, mild fellow-shows that the meek have their own kind of strength...