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...better convey nature's transcendental grandeur, Church soon began rearranging it. Rainy Season in the Tropics (opposite), painted after a trip to Jamaica, is an imaginary landscape, setting the Andes amid the lush tropical vegetation of the Caribbean. With its double-arched rainbow and rain-cleansed atmosphere, says Smith Professor David Huntington, author of the recently published The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, it represents "the ne plus ultra of hope, an Alpine Genesis...
...could ban Joyce's Ulysses, which was cleared for U.S. sale 33 years ago. "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself," said Stewart. "The Constitution protects coarse expression as well as refined, and vulgarity no less than elegance. A book worthless to me may convey something of value to my neighbor. In the free society to which our Constitution has committed us, it is for each to choose for himself...
...exciting to the kids after they view a film showing buds bursting into leaves through speeded-up film. A similar movie, also speeded up, shows how a caterpillar spins a cocoon, emerges as a splendid monarch butterfly-an experience no textbook or teacher or even nature can otherwise convey...
...SHOW. Against a background portrait of the grinning "Me Worry?" symbol, five cavorting performers convey a more or less Mad message through zany skits and impersonations. Thanks to the cast, the show is funnier than its material...
...task is to capture in one visual moment the character of a book which may be several hundred pages long. Specialized books of non-fiction don't need eye-catching jackets, for scientific and scholarly works are usually purchased for their academic reputations. The jackets of such books must convey simply the competence of their contents through sober design. But the typical reader of fiction is looking for entertainment, so fiction jackets must promise reading pleasure to undecided browsers...