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...black walnut, violet kingwood, satiny lignum vitae, reddish cocobolo, Pernambuco wood, mahogany, apple, redwood and familiar trees. Occasionally he also works with granite. Yet it is dried seed pods, withered blossoms, moss and lichens that give Muir his forms. "I am a scavenger and gatherer of all sorts of flora not thought much of by most people," he says...
...incredible, indubitable, indisputable mystery, life's history, in renaissance. Twig-twirling, bud-curling flora recommence their reproductive cycles. Birds are winging, children singing, men malingering. Chlorophyll fills the hill. Gauzy moths froth their troths. Saps stir...
...Spain's historic and literary importance rather than Latin America's present significance, the language is well-taught here. But history, political institutions, and sociology have been shamefully ignored. When Latin American problems are touched upon, it is usually in courses studying cross-cultural health problems or flora and fauna. One anthropology course, five economics courses, and two history courses designed for undergraduates tangentially discuss Latin America. Very few of these are substantially relevant to the undergraduate who would like to make the study of Latin America his central theme...
...play is still a religious allegory centered on "the need to find someone or something that means God to you." But the character of Flora Goforth, the rich, raffish ex-Follies girl dying in her Italian mountaintop villa, has lost fire. When Hermione Baddeley played Flora, the dark power of death was as chilling as her nighttime screams. The second Mrs. Goforth, Tallulah Bankhead, seems to regard death as part of the servant problem, a petty retainer whom she can sack with a throaty rumble of brandy-voiced regality. Perhaps actressing is a better word for her performance than acting...
...addition to his classical studies, Pease was a distinguished botanist. His chief botanical work, Vacular Flora of Coos County, New Hampshire, was based on field studies carried on near his home in Randolph...