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Astrology, after all, eventually led to astronomy, just as alchemy (which For man also dabbled in) laid the ground work for chemistry and physics. Forman may have been foolish, but he was not a charlatan. The Elizabethan epoch was one of rich contradictions; it is impossible to comprehend that time merely by reading its high literary work. As Rowse shows, men like Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare transcend their age; Forman embodies...
...birthday reminder may be a little depressing, but the biography is a multicolored high. With a series of old Sunday strips, black and white panels and prose reminiscences, Peanuts Creator Charles M. Schulz follows his charges from their days as Saturday Evening Post cartoons to the halcyon epoch of Snoopy as the Red Baron, Lucy as a 5? psychiatrist, and Charlie Brown as the boy who firmly decides to be wishy one day and washy the next. Schulz's humor remains poignant, whimsical and informed with religious insight-The Gospel According to Peanuts was more than a bestseller...
...RACKHAM; DULAC; THE ENGLISH DREAMERS; THE CHRISTMAS BOOK; TEMPTATION. Edited by David Larkin. Bantam Books. $5.95 each. With tireless research and unfailing taste, Editor David Larkin has assembled this striking series of low-priced museums without walls. Arthur Rackham and Dulac celebrate the greatest book illustrators of the Edwardian epoch. The English Dreamers displays the lush, romantic works of such pre-Raphaelites as Burne-Jones and Millais. The Christmas Book is a rich survey of Yuletide art from ancient Collier's magazine covers to the naive masterworks of Grandma Moses. Only one caveat: four of these five bargains would...
Juan Carlos assumed all of Franco's powers, except the positions of head of the Movimiento National and of generalissimo of "the Three Armies"-posts el Caudillo retains for life. The Prince, however, already wields sufficient authority to launch Spain's post-Franco epoch. His first official function, in fact, clearly symbolized that power had been transferred to him; he presided over Friday's Cabinet meeting, which was held around the dining-room table of his Zarzuela Palace rather than in the dining room of Franco's El Pardo...
...death of Franco will end an epoch for both Spain and Europe. Long the Continent's most reviled pariah, Franco was a haunting, living reminder that the West had failed to act decisively during the Spanish Civil War, when the forces of Communism, Fascism and democracy confronted each other in what turned out to be a dress rehearsal for World War II. In the postwar years, Franco confounded his numerous critics by taming a naturally rebellious nation that had spawned anarchy and by bringing Spanish society into the modern industrial age (see following story). Yet, like most dictators...