Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gossip is certain to intensify next month, when Treetops (Bantam; $19.95), a book by Cheever's daughter Susan, arrives in bookstores. The volume is ostensibly a history of her mother's extraordinary family: one member was Alexander Graham Bell's assistant; another went to the Arctic with Admiral Robert Peary. But Susan finds it impossible to keep her father offstage. A friend is asked, "So, do you think he was a monster?" Mary, Cheever's wife, wonders, "Maybe he was wicked...
...Bantam; 374 pages...
More than a dozen books explore aspects of the Gaia hypothesis. Lovelock's most recent thinking is available in The Ages of Gaia (Bantam Books; $10.95). The scientist has an attractively wry style, but his discussions of biochemistry and other abstruse fields can run ahead of general readers, who might prefer to turn to one of the more popular books about the theory. Among the most balanced and accessible is Lawrence Joseph's Gaia, the Growth of an Idea (St. Martin's Press; $19.95). Joseph goes to great lengths to characterize the importance of Gaia, but where necessary he holds...
...those who would like to explore more deeply the context for Gaia and the new environmentalism, Bantam Books will soon publish The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God ($21.95) by Rupert Sheldrake. The British biochemist and philosopher delves into classical thought and the Reformation to describe the events that led to the desecration of nature in Western science and religion, and then argues that a new animism is bridging the gap between science and religion...
Boston Globe political cartoonist Paul Szep calls him the Andrew Dice Clay of Massachusetts politics. Columnist George Will says he is the most interesting candidate in America this year. The specter of the 63-year-old bantam president of Boston University occupying the Governor's office terrifies many Bay State residents. But it exhilarates others, who believe a humorless political outsider performing triage on moribund state government can restore it to fiscal health. Either way, John Silber, who on June 2 ensured his place on the ballot for Massachusetts' September primary, makes incredible theater...