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...MAGIC IMAGE by Cecil Beaton and Gail Buckland. 304 pages. Little, Brown. $19.95. This is that rarest of items: a photography book in which words are more important than pictures. Authors Beaton, noted stage designer and photographer, and Buckland nave attempted nothing less ambitious than a full history of photography and its practitioners from 1839 to the present. Beaton's introduction is elegant and concise, as are the biographical sketches of more than 200 photographers. Inevitably, gaps and biases appear. Salon and experimental artists receive favored treatment, while the works of such realists as Matthew Brady, Jacob Riis...
...awarded the Goddard Memorial Trophy for his contributions to the nation's astronautic effort. Among his many legislative achievements are the Wilderness Act of 1964, which put more than 9 million acres of wilderness under federal protection, and Medicare, which he co-sponsored in 1965 with California Representative Cecil King...
...qualities Cecil Rhodes specified in his will as desirable in Rhodes scholars are wide open for interpretation. "Literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, truthfulness, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; exhibition of moral force of character, and instincts to lead and to take an interest in his fellows; physical vigor, as shown by fondness for and success in sports." None of these are exactly standardized, nor have the will's executors standardized their definition of requisite qualities. Still, one thing is fairly clear about the will: Cecil Rhodes...
...final stage--above all, the scholarships are intended for the future leaders of the world. Kinsley points out that "by its nature, the Rhodes is elitist--people who come from countries that don't have Rhodes, people who are not athletes, people who are, well stupid, are excluded." Cecil Rhodes was one of the great builders of the British Empire, and it would be surprising if his Trust didn't reflect the kind of attitude with which he justified colonialism...
First came Cecil Cooper, who hit one deep into the short-stop hole, so deep that even the rangy Dave Concepcion could barely reach it. Bernie Carbo, pinchhitting for Wise, then walked on four pitches. Goodbye Nolan, and hello Pedro Borbon...