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Menaboni lives with his buxom, Georgia-born wife (who wrote the book's text) in a tiny house on a wooded hillside near Atlanta. His studio, as big as the house, is always alive with birds, some to paint and others that have been hurt and need fixing. Among his guests last week were three Canada geese, a very angry golden eagle named Sergeant, an albino cardinal, a mourning dove, two red-winged blackbirds and a raucous blue jay with a broken wing. Menaboni makes pets of many birds; ducklings have swum in his bathtub, bobwhites have made themselves...
...book is a completely new text, based on Conant's 1947 volume, "On Understanding Science," which was aimed at teachers and students. The 1947 book was the published version of the Terry Lectures which Conant delivered in New Haven...
...attempts to brighten up with these old stories. The reader finds himself first confused and then bored by a book that seems hastily written. Events as late as last spring are included by Wagner to give his work timeliness, but these recent incidents are not worked into the text...
...Alfred Cowles Professor of Government in New Haven, will come to Cambridge in July. He has written "Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups," a standard text which is required reading in Government...
...text Fairfield discusses such problems as the vague generality which will enable the student to impress the course grader. Fairfield cites a number of statements which he then explains can be used in any examination in that particular field...