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...prefer every time," Homer once said, "a picture composed and painted outdoors. This making studies and then taking them home to use them is only half right. You get composition, but you lose freshness." Homer must have spent just about every daylight hour outdoors, for in one Mountainville summer alone, he turned out 50 watercolors, plus drawings and oils. He painted everything from sheep grazing in a distant field to grizzled guides, husky young trappers, beguiling children and young shepherdesses. Sometimes-no one knows quite why-he dressed his plowmen and shepherdesses in costumes of the 18th century...
Children's eyes are especially sensitive to damage; for them, as for adults, no sunglasses-not even welders' goggles-are dense enough for safe, direct observation of the eclipse. Neither is a piece of smoked glass. At least two thicknesses of photographic film, fully exposed in daylight and overdeveloped, are needed to make a safe filter. The wiser witness will view the eclipse indirectly, with his back to the sun. This can be done by punching a hole with a pin or sharp pencil in a sheet of cardboard (which serves as a primitive camera) and observing...
...sleeves, pulled up her gloves, wrapped a kerchief about her face, and stepped nervously into a waiting car with tinted windows. All such precautions, Mrs. Carlson has learned from agonizing experience, are absolutely essential. She suffers from a form of the rare disease porphyria, and to venture into the daylight unprotected for so much as a few seconds causes painful skin eruptions...
...director of the Vincennes zoo usually went home just before dark. The residents of his beaver cage rarely came out in the daylight. It seemed as if the man and the broad-tailed mammals might never meet. Then a crew of Dutch technicians crept close to the edge of the beaver pond on a black, moonless night. They sighted in with a short, cylindrical gadget, and the director finally saw his beavers-scuttling across the face of a TV picture tube that had been set up in his office...
...seek nature. It is a war with no front lines and no decisive battles; a war of containment, not of conquest; a war of Lilliputian pinpricks and Brobdingnagian stakes. It is a day war and a night war, in which the government controls most highways and waterways by daylight (though a U.S. lieutenant and two Vietnamese soldiers were killed in a daylight roadside ambush last week), and the Viet Cong slip in from jungles and swamps to take charge after dark. In the rugged north, it is a mountain war, in which the Reds are short of food, medicine, weapons...