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Ardrey wants to adjourn the biological debate by accepting the territorial principle as a key to the understanding of man and as a solution to all his behavior problems. Why does the Russian collective farmer only listlessly till state soil? Because, says Ardrey, the dispossessed planarian worm lost his zest for life and slipped this attitude into the evolutionary stream untold millions of years...
Blanching Moguls. Valenti does not presume to "tell the heads of movie companies what kind of films to make" or pretend that the industry is not ruled by the box office. He does think that he can infuse Hollywood with imagination and a zest for quality. He wants to upgrade the Oscar competition, turn it from a popularity contest into a genuine system of reward for achievement. It may make some oldtime movie moguls blanch at the thought, but only a freshman like Valenti can get away with the proclamation that the M.P.A.A. will march "with banners flying...
...More Johnnies. Kentucky's elders have more zest than many of the campus youngsters, are fired with an eagerness to expand their interests, refine longtime hobbies, or even start new careers. Mrs. Ellner, 68, a onetime Ziegfeld Follies star still proud that "my legs were insured for $50,000," is studying sociology, expects to work with delinquent girls. A widow, she decided that "the show must go on," concedes that "there will never be any more stage-door Johnnies for me-but there won't be any rocking chairs either." She dramatizes the point by pressing her palms...
...Answer. At their best, the new Czech films combine a zest for cinematic experimentation with a thematic audacity and wry humor that is surprising in a Communist culture. A recurrent motif of the Prague cinemakers is the plight of the dogged individualist who bombards society with question marks, and usually receives "Oh" for an answer. Black Peter, Forman's first feature film, is a droll defense of an aimless Czech teenager, who drifts from senseless jobs to hopeless dance-hall encounters to empty lectures at home. In the devastating symbolism of Joseph Kilián, by 30-year...
BORN FREE. Living among lions and looking as though they love it, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers add zest to a dandy movie based on Joy Adamson's bestseller about her rambunctious house pet, Elsa...