Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). A message written in hieroglyphics pulls Ancient Languages Professor Gregory Peck into a wild adventure, with Sophia Loren as part of the stakes in Arabesque...
...station wagon step Procaccino and his two running mates. The crowd is friendly, the candidates cheerful, the encounter an instant success. A woman approaches, gray, wrinkled, ancient. "I voted for him," she says of John Lindsay. "But I hate him. I hate him! You got to get him out of there." Procaccino replies with his customary vehemence: "I got news for you. We are going to get him out. But I want to remind you of why you voted for him. Because he's pretty, that's why. Now I'm not pretty...
Only Latin America fell behind seriously last year; drought caused a drop of 2% in food output, while population increased by 2%. Developing countries in Africa increased farm production by 2%, while population went up an estimated 2.5%. By contrast, the food-shy developing countries in Asia, where ancient methods of farming are gradually giving way to more efficient cultivation of high-yield strains of rice and wheat, increased their food pro duction by 5% for the second year in a row. The biggest gains were made by Malaysia (11%) and Thailand (8%). In the Western world, the U.S., Canada...
...provocative chapter on the sex life of baboons, whose customs find some resonances in human behavior. Baboons also become addicted to intoxicants, it appears, and feel let down just as evening falls. But Marais too often labors over speculations about the origins of the human unconscious in ancient animal instincts. Marais was a self-educated naturalist who had read Darwin but came to grief over the noninheritance of acquired characteristics-a turn-of-the-century incomprehension he shared with Bernard Shaw...
Belief is not an issue in Jacobs' bizarre, mainly urban fairy tales. He is essentially a monologist, and his effect depends not so much on the credibility of his characters or incidents as on the incredibility of his language. He is a not-so-ancient mariner of kitsch, whose voyages seem mostly to have been out of the sovereign state of innocence via the borscht circuit. He re-enacts them repeatedly under assumed names in this, his first collection, emerging from a Jewish childhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, mournful yet wide-eyed, trying to gain...