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...story fiber-glass statue of Jesus Christ overlooking the Salvation Gardens! Thrill to gladiator fights in the Colosseum! Climb the Tower of Babel! Disappear into the belly of Jonah's Whale! Pet the animals on Noah's Ark! Ride a slave barge across the Sea of Galilee! Visit Heaven and Hell! All this and more for only $6 a head...
...Joseph Lash's splendidly affectionate Eleanor and Franklin (Norton); in arts and letters, Pianist Charles Rosen's demanding study of The Classical Style in the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven (Viking); in science, George L. Small's ecological lament for the disappearance of The Blue Whale (Columbia University); in philosophy and religion, Martin E. Marty's Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (Dial); and for translation, Austryn Wain-house's heroic failure to quite transform French Nobel Prizewinner Jacques Monod's prolix inquiry into biological evolution Chance and Necessity (Knopf) into readable...
...gray whale, once considered virtually extinct, is alive and multiplying in the lagoons along the coast of Baja California. That news was reported last week by Carl Hubbs, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Hubbs credited the whale's comeback to Mexico's ban on hunting and its designation of a large lagoon as a whale sanctuary. According to Hubbs, four other supposedly doomed species are also winning the fight against extinction. The northern elephant seal and the Guadalupe fur seal are both doing well on the tiny remote island of Guadalupe off Baja. The sea otter...
Some might call the noncompetitive performance a hollow triumph, native sports do not even call for medals. There are, however, gold, silver and bronze ulus (medals shaped like the Eskimo whale-skinning knife) for individual and team winners in such conventional sports as cross-country skiing, figure skating, basketball, ice hockey and table tennis. The combination of exotic native feats and intense territorial rivalry have made the games the liveliest sporting event north of the 60th parallel...
...life of the bohemians after the Lost Generation had already boarded the boat back to America. Miller was born in the same golden decade as Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But while all the others lived the life fantastic, he was enduring a worklife right in the belly of the capitalist whale, the Grand Hirer and Firer for the Cosmodemonic Company. Miller came to his expatriation and the realization that his destiny was as an artist when he was just on the verge of turning forty...