Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tafese opens The New York Times closets with his bestseller, The Kingdom and the Power...
...Pursuit of the Mous, the Snaile, and the Clamm by Mary Durant. Illustrated by Victoria Chess. 247 pages. Meredith. $4.95. Subtitled "a roving dictionary of the animal kingdom," this lighthearted book traces the names of animals back to abstruse origins. (The lowly burrowing gopher, for example, derives from gaufre, the French word for honeycomb.) The illustrations are shaggy dog in style, but accompanying quotations from naturalists, explorers and novelists can be stern indeed. Thus Admiral Jaacob van Neck on the dodo bird, circa 1598: "They have thick heads only partially covered with feathers and in place of wings only...
...WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Sockeye salmon head upstream for a fishy version of the mating game...
...Kingdom and the Power, Talese...
...into the future: the technological way." Again and again, he tries to sober us up about the Great White Prophets in smocks. The new faith in computers, he warns, has made us forget the old wisdom of fairy tales: there is a frontier to man's kingdom where "predictability ceases and the unimaginable begins...