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Dr. Godwin is a specialist in phytogeography, which means that he studies remains of ancient plants with an eye to what they tell about ancient climate and geography. His favorite haunts are peat beds, where plant material is often preserved so well that the species can be identified easily after...
Besides the copied drawings, the expedition brought back tools, mortars for grinding colors, personal ornaments, even pearls from some distant sea. Some of the finds contain carbon and can be dated by radioactive carbon 14. When this has been done, and when scholars have studied the drawings and artifacts, a...
Since the '30s, America's tastes and talents have changed with the social whirlwinds, and David Copperfield may not have grown up with them. The M-G-M films, largest of a staggering assortment purchased by all three webs for fall release, are pre-1949. If they seem...
In their optimism Cypriots forgot the traditional stiff-necked British reluctance to negotiate with "rebels and outlaws." They also overlooked the fact that Colonel Nasser's as yet unpunished defiance of Britain at Suez made it politically attractive to the Eden government to continue a tough line in Cyprus...
In an interview with the left bank Paris Review, Dorothy ("Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses") Parker, wit, versifier and short-story writer, spoke frankly about many things. Of the '20s: "Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a...