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Dates: during 1960-1960
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MARC CHAGALL DRAWINGS FOR THE BIBLE (Harcourt, Brace; $30), is a continuation of the artist's Biblical poem-without-words on which he has been engaged for more than 30 years. These drawings and lithographs have a power firmly rooted in a kind of sophisticated innocence. Marc Chagall takes...
THE LITHOGRAPHS OF CHAGALL (220 pp ; Braziller; $25), has 237 reproductions « of them in color, which probably bears out the publisher's claim that it is a definitive collection of the artist's lithographs. Since they date from 1922 to 1960, Marc Chagall's development becomes...
HUMMINGBIRDS, by Crawford H.Greenewalt (250 pp.; Doubleday; $22.50), may become a classic of natural history. Author Greenewalt, president of mighty E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., has written a monograph, understandable to laymen, on his hobby-hummingbirds. Greenewalt offers some intriguing hummingbird lore, including the fact that they are...
Matt Jones is a run-of-the-Miltown adman who lives in a suburb of New York's Westchester County, where the only certainties are debt and taxes. Peaceable Lane is a newly planted colony of middle-class status creepers whose houses cost $30,000. "You can get some...
Grey Market. What follows is a kind of social-consciousness thriller. Author Keith Wheeler, a LIFE associate editor, feelingly probes the grey market in interracial ethics. Like most topical problem novels, Peaceable Lane, a December Book-of-the-Month choice, is on somewhat distant terms with literature, and Breathlessly intimate...