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...bright colors. Generations of entomologists have suspected that nature thus protects a butterfly that birds consider delicious by enabling it to resemble one that is distasteful to birds-but this theory has been widely debated and rarely tested experimentally. In Natural History, Biologists Lincoln P. and Jane Van Zandt Brower of Amherst College settle at least part of the argument about the survival value of nature's insect masquerade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Insect Masquerade | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Instead of working with butterflies, the Drs. Brower selected two insects, the bumblebee and the robber fly, that are very distantly related but look very much alike. Both are covered with light and dark fur; both have hairy legs and buzz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Insect Masquerade | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...Cambridge has probably as great as that from the rest country, commented Michael a University graduate student in charge of publicity for this area. was waiting for at least 25,000 before going ahead, and now it like he will have his council in six weeks," added Brower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ti-War Lobby | 3/14/1962 | See Source »

...teaching of English, as is no secret, contains problems peculiar to itself. Members of the Department like Reuben Brower, or Monroe Engel, have tended to feel that undergraduate instruction ought, through the study of literature, to stress the development of critical tools--in large part to examine what is being written now. As a whole, the Department has leaned rather to the reverse, to concern itself more and more deeply with the content of the literature itself. In Honors or non-Honors, the effect has often been to engulf the student in as many nice, scholarly distinctions as the teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutorial and the English Department | 2/21/1962 | See Source »

...president of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather Inc., much criticism "is not on economic grounds, but on the grounds that advertising corrupts public taste, and makes lying respectable." Admen themselves concede that too many ads are strident, misleading, dull or offensive. "People are irritated by some ads on TV," says Charles Brower, outspoken president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. "The audience gets bored when yet more intestines appear on the screen as the evening goes on. Who wants to wake up his liver bile all the time?" Cunningham & Walsh President Carl W. Nichols faults some of his colleagues on grounds of creativity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Rumble on Madison Avenue | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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