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...LORD CHESTERFIELD: "Few Would-be servants of God put so much energy into their task as Chesterfield puts into the service of Mammon. The load carried by Bunyan's Christian was almost light compared with the burden imposed by this Worldly Wiseman on his unfortunate offspring. He felt that life held no greater good than to please it and be pleased by it. He tells his son: 'We shall not converse much together, for I cannot stand awkwardness; it would endanger my health...
LAND OF GIANTS (Columbia). The swinging, twanging, oversized chorus known as the New Christy Minstrels celebrates real and mythical American heroes. There's John Henry, of course, along with Paul Bunyan, Casey Jones, Johnny Appleseed, Joe Magarac, Thomas Jefferson, and the blacksmith of Brandywine. Apparently the only lady giant available was a statue ("My name is Liberty...
...chief threat this year should come from Minnesots, where practically everyone in the line-up seems determined to replace Paul Bunyan as the hero of the North Woods. Harmon Killebrew, Bob Allison, Jim Hall, and Tony Oliva alone have more home runs than any other team in the Majors...
FRICK COLLECTION-Fifth Ave. at 70th. William Blake, faithful to his own visions, could also be true to another's. In 28 watercolors illustrating Pilgrim's Progress, he yielded to the imagination of the writer, drew Bunyan's familiar figures more literally than was his wont, but also less lyrically. Also a drawing done for Milton's Paradise Regained. Through...
...Paul Bunyan, who used a pine tree for a comb and once hitched his blue ox, Babe, to the foot of a river and hauled it into an adjoining prairie, would have been proud to claim credit for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel...