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...well-informed clichés and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...
There seems to be something both pleasing and prestigious in having wild animals where you want them. The bachelor Prince Rainier of Monaco made a lasting impression on Movie Actress Grace Kelly by showing her around his private zoo, and he had plenty of royal precedent. Some 3,000 years ago, Egypt's Empress Hatasu sent out a whole fleet in search of new animals to stock her private menagerie; Emperor Wen, the first of China's Chou dynasty (12th century B.C.), had a collection of animals he called "the Garden of Intelligence"; Roman Emperor Octavius Augustus...
Wild animals are mostly a municipal matter today, but they are more popular than ever. Of the 30 largest cities in the U.S. only two do not have at least one zoo (Minneapolis and Newark). Recently Los Angeles announced plans for a new $6,600,000 zoo designed by Architect Charles Luckman. Indianapolis has just opened a twelve-acre, $800,000 children's zoo as a mere preliminary to a 38-acre main zoo to be added within the next four years...
...Indianapolis children's zoo contains a Japanese garden, with pagoda, pool and bridge, in which a collection of Japanese wildlife run free; a miniature train tours the grounds behind a replica of an 1863 locomotive; a walk-in whale has an aquarium in his stomach; there is an underwater glass panel for viewing submarine life and an underground panel to watch burrowing animals at work. An "elephant-rama" houses a baby elephant named Tumthong, bought with the nickels and dimes of 100,000 Indianapolis and Marion County schoolchildren. And of course there is a chicken hatchery-a staple...
Paddling Through Animals. Dreamer-up of all this zoological ingenuity is North America's No. 1 architect to the animal world, Robert Everly, 58, of Winnetka, Ill. Everly got into zoo designing ten years ago as a byproduct of planning recreation areas, and has traveled all over the world studying old zoos and planning new ones...