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...always seemed solid only to those who, with Plato, considered art to be the imitation of nature. The classic anecdote of the triumph of art as artifice concerned Zeuxis: when he unveiled his painting of grapes, birds flew down to peck at them. What the anecdotists seldom added is that Zeuxis' rival won the contest, for when the judges turned to unveil his painting, they were stunned to discover that the veil itself was the painting and declared him the winner because he had fooled the judges, while Zeuxis had fooled only birds...
Traveling in Tanzania on a National Geographic Society photographic expedition, Zoologist Jane Goodall and her photographer husband Hugo van Lawick came upon an abandoned ostrich nest. Two ostrich eggs left in the nest were under attack by a variety of vultures, which were trying vainly to peck through the tough shells. While the Van Lawicks watched and photographed, they reported last week in Nature, two Egyptian vultures took a novel approach to their problem...
Snagged & Blinded. CaterineMilinaire wears a mirror-top dress; Charlotte Ford was last seen wearing silver-embroidered ivory lace with matching boots. Chicago Socialite Fay Peck owns at least a dozen pairs of Christmas-tree-ball earrings, plus three short glitter dresses, which, she says, "I haven't taken off since the time I bought them." To the San Francisco Opera Guild's annual Fol de Rol ball, Nancy Adler, the conductor's wife, came in a silver and white plaid dress, and Pia Lindstrom (now a local TV hostess) wore a silver brocade pants suit. Three...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Roman Holiday (1953), all about a princess (Audrey Hepburn) on a good-will tour who slips out for a fling and finds a willing guide (Gregory Peck...
That's Correct. The first thing that the student does is peck his name out on the Teletype (to kids who write "Batman," the computer politely responds, "Please file again"). This enables the computer brain to run through the student's record of instruction and achievement and pick his next drill. One reading drill, for instance, consists of teaching the student to combine the initial sounds r, p and b with the endings an, at and ag, to make ban, pan, ran, bat, pat, rat, bag and rag. As each word flashes on the screen, the taped voice...