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...Cyril and Florian, Hilarion's sidekicks, Donald Fern and William Nethercut maintained uniform quality throughout demanding roles. In the second act, for instance, they sang five ensembles in a row without losing their freshness. Fern's comic touches also contributed to the general hilarity...
...OSCAR FERNÁNDEZ...
...poem, Dylan Thomas' Fern Hill, opens with the memorable, smiling first lines...
...Miss Fern Collier, 48, whose junior and senior classes in citizenship and the problems of democracy at Oklahoma City's John Marshall Junior-Senior High School are the very model of what the society-centered classroom should be. Instead of teaching history solely as a narrative series of events, Miss Collier likes to concentrate on such current problems as conservation. Once she set her class to reclaiming a 32-acre plot of land just outside of town, got botany students to study its plants, chemists to examine its soil, geology and art students to make up maps, agricultural students...
...most forms of animal life are architects rather than painters and sculptors, there are some creatures that indulge in purely decorative art: the bower birds of Australia. In addition to nests these happy birds build bowers of twigs and sticks, some exquisitely decorated with fern fronds, mosses and berries; the bower's sole purpose is for recreation and the entertainment of friends. The satin bower bird even paves his forecourt with shining bits of mica. But his crowning achievement is painting murals in the bower: "He collects charcoal from native hearths and, holding a strip of frayed bark...