Word: pith
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...with chimps, that I'm their hero and they want to be just like me, and what was it like in the jungle and did I really eat bugs?" says Goodall. "They send me wonderful pictures and book reports. I could paper a wall with little Jane Goodalls in pith helmets, what they think I looked like in the jungle." Naturally, the 2001 Jane Goodall also has a website, www.janegoodall.org In October, Scholastic published a compelling new children's book by Goodall, The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours. The text and lush photos, intended for kids...
...collected in a book of the same name), Sontag railed against the type of writing about literature, film and painting that dissects artwork and leaves it dead on the examination table. She ended the essay with a stand alone line, unrivaled by other criticism of the era for its pith and spirit: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics...
DIED. RICHARD SCHULTES, 86, pith helmet-sporting father of the field of ethnobotany, which examines the medicinal and hallucinogenic uses of plants among indigenous peoples; in Boston. While his research inadvertently contributed to the 1960s drug culture, Schultes rejected the Timothy Leary and William Burroughs brand of "mind expansion." He collected more than 24,000 dried plant specimens, mostly from the Amazon. Some of the 120 plant species named for him treat ulcers, tuberculosis and conjunctivitis...
Many of his still lifes were lone objects like that: a half-peeled lemon exposing its snow-white pith, a warty green monument of a melon. But on occasion, especially in the 1860s, Manet would show his full ordering skill in a composition that anticipates what Cezanne came to in the 1880s. Still Life with Salmon, 1866, is such a painting, a wonderful balance between stability and its opposite: you can feel the weight of the fish and the density of the white tablecloth, but the knife in the foreground is precariously balanced, and the blue bowl with a lemon...