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...Butterflies offer directions-in-reverse to the nearest coast because their flights over water are generally suicidal-away from land. Trying to make conversation in Tibet? Better stop talking by midmorning. because after that the wind sets up a "howling, skin-blasting roar." Along with such recherche lore. Author Murchie offers straightforward tips on air navigation to those who may feel the need of them. At his infrequent but embarrassing worst, he plays the Whitman-cum-Thomas Wolfe of the skyways: "I winnow the meager facts, seeking to construct truth only from the clean kernels. I am a human lodestone...
...later as Ambassador to Brazil, does not undertake a full-scale reexamination. Rather, he suggests an outline for a whole generation of scholars. As a longtime corporation lawyer and author (with Gardiner C. Means) of The Modern Corporation and Private Property, Berle is well qualified to bring corporate lore up to date. He directs attention to the American corporation-not as a legal or economic entity but as a political institution. It has power. It has limits upon its power. What kind of power? What kind of limits...
Ever since Eve ate the apple, the Devil has had a particularly winning appeal for mankind. Every nation has expressed itself on this theme with its own special brand of Satan lore, climaxed perhaps by the German Faust-legend. Beauty and the Devil, the latest restatement of the old tale, may be a corruption of previous interpretations, but it's probably just what one would expect from the French. Rene Clair's treatment of the story, at the Brattle this week, is as sparkling and stimulating to the audience as it is subversive to the tragic moral dilemma that earlier...
...have breakfast with them; after that, he guided them spiritually from the pulpit in chapel. He conducted his own Bible class, and in the afternoon, his dog Rani trotting at his side, he was apt to lead a group of boys into the woods for a discourse on woods lore. At dinner or at tea-or during his daily rounds through the infirmary-he would try to draw his students out on every sort of topic-from the materials used in Syrian pottery to the virtues of the Confederate cause during the Civil War. "He seems," said one awe-struck...
...month pay boost) while playing with the Boston Beaneaters (National League) in 1894, compiled a .330 lifetime average. His record withstood the assaults of such great hitters as Willie Keeler (.432 in 1897) and Rogers Hornsby (.424 in 1924), but Duffy modestly disclaimed any special knowledge of batting lore. "You just walk up there," he said...