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...register these thoughts to emphasize a general point of which the reader should be aware-in the perception of the thinking Israeli there intrudes an emotional dimension when he relates to the United States. He invariably finds it difficult to be absolutely detached. He does not look at the U.S. as though it were a totally strange country thousands of miles away. The reason goes beyond the presence there of a great Jewish community with which there exists a profound bond of religion and history. It reaches deep into the national instinct...
...left to the reader to formulate an example which shows the Gov grading policy to be harsher than the Ec grading policy, and the Gov students to be more intelligent than the Ec students. John A. Weiser...
...explorer and naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied and his Swiss-born companion, Artist Karl Bodmer, traveled among the tribes. The result was Maximilian's diaries, packed with details of Indian life and Bodmer's stunning watercolors. It was a happy marriage of ethnology and art, as the reader is now able to see in this finely produced book...
MYTHS by Alexander Eliot. 320 pages. McGraw-Hill. $39.95. This dizzying book hurls the reader around the world and across the centuries in pursuit of the common roots of mankind's myths. Here is Himbui the Hummingbird, the fire bringer of Peru's Jivaro Indians, cheek by jowl with Prometheus. Here is Polynesian Forest God Tanemahuta forcibly separating Father Sky from Mother Earth. Visions of heavens and hells are shared by Aztec and Hindu, Algonquin and Buddhist. This sweeping survey of human imagination is buttressed by 1,300 illustrations, excellent maps, and essays by Scholars Joseph Campbell...
DREAMS AND HALLUCINATIONS defy common sense yet intermingle with it like honeysuckle gradually choking its host plant. Althea bridges the gap between fantasy and reality. J.M. Alonzo's third novel is a brilliantly successful suspension of the reader's belief, a literary Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in which time, space and motivation convolute and distort one another so that one is both enmeshed and detached. Acid for the temperate...