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...size, hours of labor and the material. As a new humanist, he protested that as art represented man more accurately, it approached divinity more closely. So a tiny drawing, if divinely inspired, could be more artistic than a giant altarpiece. "Verily, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it," Dürer declared. And to make certain that his insight would be recognized, he became one of the first to sign and date even his most incidental drawings. In this he was fully justified, for his drawings became collector's items...
...William Franklin designed a rigorous test to get around both difficulties. They kept a daily record of their patients' symptoms for an entire season, thus eliminating error from day-to-day variations. And they divided the patients into two groups, only one of which got injections containing ragweed extract in gradually increased amounts...
When the frost was on the pumpkin and the ragweed menace died, the code was broken and checked against the record of patients' complaints. Those who had had ragweed extract in their shots were found to have had only about half the comparison group's episodes of sneezing, nose running, eye watering and itching. It was official at last: those millions of injections were worth the cost and discomfort...
...Controlled, they will take over all the other bees and they will take over Brazil. Says São Paulo Beekeeper Luiz Zovaro who keeps African bees, but has had to raise the price of honey from 39? to almost $2 a jar because it is so difficult to extract honeycombs from their hives: "If they are not stopped Brazil will no longer be safe. I am very discouraged about the future...
...most ardent of all literature luggers is the Experience Maximizer, who seeks to extract every ounce of significance from his travels by boning up on the history and folklore of the place he is visiting. For a sojourn in Italy this summer, a Manhattan couple came armed with H. V. Morton's A Traveller in Rome and A Traveller in Italy, Luigi Barzini's The Italians, and a clutch of Moravia novels. Another species of Experience Maximizer is represented by Washington's Laughlin Phillips, a former State Department officer, who during shore vacations in Maryland cracks nothing...