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...Through the Hoop" offers the reader much more than Sander's philosophy on basketball as the former Celtic great's attitudes on life come alive in tpe stmry. He emphasizes the constant need for mental preparation and total effort in every aspect of human endeavor...
...century engravings of birds juxtaposed against equally splendid 20th century photographs of the same owls, thrushes, hummingbirds and eagles. The fascinating and informative experiment raises the question of which is better: the 120-year-old engraved image or the sophisticated, modern stop-action photo? In making a decision, the reader is likely to pay homage to Audubon...
...good old days (circa 1860 to 1910), pigs crowded people off New York streets, untreated garbage brought disease to the suburbs, Chicagoans and Pittsburghers lived in perpetual smog -the word coined by a Glasgow sanitary engineer in 1905. The author's words and pictures also jolt the modern reader with the horrors of oldtime horse-traffic jams, railroad accidents, street crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and even home cooking. Writes Bettmann of that time: "The masses were forced to subsist on a crude and scanty diet of which tea and bread were staples, supplemented now and then by soup...
This technique banishes any tendency toward generalized moralizing. It makes the book worth a dozen sociological treatises. Feeling first trapped and then at home in Jones' existence, the reader is left with the enraging conclusion that for society only the extremes will really work?either the liberal view that the world of the poor must be fundamentally revamped or the conservative insistence that such men must all be locked up for life. Nothing less will really reach the Joneses, and nothing like either course seems immediately possible. Meanwhile, Jones has temporarily laid aside his life as a mugger...
...Ebony Tower is a far less ambitious exercise?four stories, "a personal note," and a version of the medieval story of Eliduc. Fowles says he intended these as a series of "variations" on related themes; he leaves the reader to make the connections. In the title story, a young English artist and art critic named David Williams visits an old expatriate English painter, Henry Breasley, in his rural French farmhouse. Breasley, living with an old French couple and two young English birds, gets drunk, rants against Picasso and the century's other departures from the world as the eye sees...