Word: houghton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after lights-out? Dreams, of course. Few black-and-white drawings have caught their incongruous logic as well as The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95). A suburban boy takes a nap on a magical couch. When he rises, he finds himself in a twilit garden, owned by an ominous wizard in a fez. Nothing is quite the same, not even his pet. The fat man's hobby: turning pet dogs into ducks. Long after the spell ends, an eerie residue remains, like a dream that persists in the waking world. Chris Van Allsburg's narrative leans...
...tall?-there can be no more elegant and reassuring self-help book than Karla Kuskin's Herbert Hated Being Small (Houghton Mifflin; $6.95). Herbert gauges his mini-stature by standing next to his parents, always a mistake. Depressed, he sets out on his own. So does Philomel, who feels humongous next to her little family. But when boy and girl meet in the woods, they discover that they are the same size. Everything is relative, observes this cascade of wise rhymes. Einstein would have been pleased...
DiBerardinis said he tests Harkness Dining Hall and the ceiling of Houghton Library--both made of asbestos tiling--every six months to insure that there are not dangerous levels of airbound asbestos fibers...
CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A MARRIAGE by Mary Soames Houghton Mifflin; 732 pages...
Rodney C. Dennis, curator of manuscripts at Houghton, said, "Even relatively unimportant scraps of Kennedy writing have fetched a good deal of money at auction...