Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Living Treasure Sanderson describes his little lizards and mice, not only with words but with his own drawings, which are artistic works of science. His interest in ecology-the study of the relation, always complex, between each animal and its environment-makes his book not merely a description of...
Job Mann, as his name suggests, is a patient, courageous believer buffeted by an angry sea of unbelief, a symbol of the rocky virtues that keep man's head above water. Life for Job and his wife, Katie, has been secure and happy until age, illness and the Great...
Davey is the son of U. S. Artist Randall Davey, was genteelly educated at Lawrenceville and Princeton, spent some five years writing his novel. Good as it is, the story lacks that final intensity that would make it really comparable with Wolfe. William Davey seems the victim of an environment...
> Yet environment is not everything. A wolf, or even an ape, reared in the Rev. Singh's orphanage would not attain a human personality.
Of a New England long since gone to seed, John Phillips Marquand writes with affectionate malice. The Late George Apley (1937) was a full-length portrait of a Boston Brahmin who was left like Old North Church amid a new environment. Wickford Point (1939) examined the Brill family who made...