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In Darwin's view, the human molecules have one fundamental property that dominates all others: they tend to increase their numbers up to the absolute limit of their food supply. This is the familiar thesis of Thomas Malthus, a senior contemporary of Grandfather Darwin whose gloomy predictions of starvation...
Last week U.S. art lovers got a chance to judge for themselves. At a Manhattan gallery, 36 of Hasan's paintings were on exhibit-delightful studies of musicians, kings, carousels and clowns-as bright and intricate as fine Turkish rugs. Hasan's color effects are strong, to say...
Nobody has yet successfully defined a novel. The best anyone can do is point to a good one, and say, "This is it." A good many people these days are thus remarking the novels of Joyce Cary. For his books are haunted houses, inhabited by very lively ghosts. To say...
As Adlai Stevenson's motorcade rolled into Democratic Baltimore last week, housewives craned out of open windows to catch sight of the first Democratic presidential candidate to visit their city since 1932. Through the small street-corner crowds gathered along Stevenson's route rippled the question "Which one...
Solider and deeper were Epstein's statues of women, usually half-figures, in which the sculptor uses the set of shoulders, the modeling of collarbone and breasts to suggest personality. There was a beautiful, grave head of his wife, Margaret, a hollow-eyed, haunted Louise, a brazen, thick-lipped...