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Naturalists have noticed for at least a century that insects have a way of mimicking each other. Butterflies of two species not closely related often show similar patterns of bright colors. Generations of entomologists have suspected that nature thus protects a butterfly that birds consider delicious by enabling it to...

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

Of course, Japanese cuisine is generally ranked among the world's best. Sukiyaki, though, is not properly a typical Japanese dish; for one thing it was unknown in Japan until about sixty years ago. Also, one meal of sukiyaki contains more meat than the average Japanese eats in a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Your reporter has evidently never tasted whale steak. Otherwise he would never describe the Attorney General as "munching manfully on a whale steak." While in Norway three years ago, we went to a fishmonger's to buy dinner. Imagine our surprise when a shopper advised us to try the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

The other two works on the program were Hayden's D major quartet, Opus 20, No. 4, and Beethoven's F minor quartet, Opus 95. The performance of the Beethoven was occasionally uncoordinated, rarely clear, and never balanced. Haydn, as Temianka remarked, wrote for the diletanti of the local aristocracy...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Paganini Quartet | 2/19/1962 | See Source »

As for the episode at Deraa, Nutting rejects Rattigan's thesis, and believes that the Turks never suspected the identity of their captive; if they had, they would never have let him escape. The reason Deraa was a turning point in Lawrence's life, Nutting argues, was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tortured Hero | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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