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...literature, its relation to and effect on American mores and ideals. What the reader gets, instead, is a short, delightfully styled, whimsey-packed hour's entertainment. But "Learning How to Behave" falls short of being the integrated study of convention that one inevitably feels the research and author's background made possible...
...churches had shared an almost identical background and a history of unusually friendly relations, but their union had taken a long time. United Brethren and Evangelical representatives first gathered to talk it over in 1816; it was 1933 before they really got down to business...
...Whitman designed her bright colors in elaborate motifs, gave each motif a name. Examples: a yellow ticker tape tangled with prancing red devils, called "Ticker Tape"; a naked urchin facing a dark-green background of cactus, called "Cactus Also Needs Water." (There are also a few less discreet themes which have to be kept under the vest in polite company.) For snob appeal, Mrs. Whitman printed only 30 dozen of each design, with her crested monogram on each...
...this, U.S. physicists agreed, was not directly connected with "atomic energy for military purposes." It was background research. But mesons are close to the innermost problem: how to turn mass wholly into energy. A few pounds of mesons (if obtainable) would release more energy than 10,000 atomic bombs...
...best guide is Thomas' own background and beliefs-which are helpfully summarized in Critic John L. Sweeney's introduction to this volume of poetry and prose. Like many another of England's poets-Donne, Herbert, Vaughan-Dylan Thomas is of Welsh lineage. He is also what the old Welsh bards called a "shaper"-one who refashions and revivifies the language bequeathed him by the poets of the past...