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...with mere selfishness, he explained, but was "a mature and calm feeling" of withdrawal from the community. He thought it was a dangerous tendency but also believed that America's political institutions would keep it in check. Amid this early American balance of man and society developed a new breed of individual...
Even though the disease cannot be cured, sprays can kill the beetles that carry its deadly fungus from tree to tree. And if dead or dying trees are burned, the beetles have fewer places to breed. But still the plague spreads, even though many Middle Western cities, where elms are the most common and sometimes the only shade trees, have demonstrated that the two-part program works well. Chicago, which destroyed diseased trees and sprayed too, lost only 0.7% of its elms last year; Champaign-Urbana and Bloomington, where no systematic effort was made, lost 95% of their elms...
...rustle of spring to a growing horde of enthusiasts is the sound of skis knifing through good corn snow. Spring skiing is the latest-and many say the greatest-form of snow fun, and it is bringing out a new breed of bum and bunny in Europe...
...chronicler of the half-forgotten art of small-town life in Southern California's hill towns and desert byways, Ainsworth is one of a vanishing breed of peripatetic reporters. By his own estimate, he has logged 1,500,000 miles in not quite 40 years, celebrating things that few of his colleagues would bother to write about. "This is the only city in America where a dried grape ranks on a par with President Kennedy, the atom bomb, Nikita and the Cuban Reds," he wrote from Fresno a fortnight...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. Rasping family squabbles are the scenes that U.S. playwrights handle best, and this savage-witted, nightlong bout of man and wife ranks with the best of the breed. Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen are the battlers...