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Everyone else is out chopping down the forest, Bunyans, nay Weyerhauesers. But White is standing still and looking at the trees, separating the solid lumber from the rotted. And from a single tree he can find the whole wood--almost the reverse of the more common sort of writing, which takes the world and boils it down into a single character. It is skill--not passion, not energy, not vision--that carries White; for anyone without the skill, his method of approaching big ideas is impossible. He is a singles hitter, but his average is high...
...know better than a Pole what the Soviets are up to? All the past of Polish-Soviet relations is marked by violence and treason from the Soviet side. Of course, the official historiography keeps its mouth shut about that. But Polish people remember very well the massacre in Katyn forest, the deportations to Siberia, the betrayed Warsaw Uprising, the means by which Communist rule has been imposed on Poland since 1944. And they also remember three examples of Soviet "brotherly help": Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan in 1980. Can anybody seriously maintain that the Poles underestimate the danger...
...Broadway in the 1930s and again on a rief tour in the '70s But while those productions demanded an elaborate naturalistic set--not the Ex's style, to be sure--director Bill Rausch is exploring the effects of gray paint and suspended bare trees (borrowed from the Harvard Forest) to create the "cold, stagnant environment where nothing ever changes"--the one usually associated with Wharton's spare style...
...fact--that more of New England is wooded now than 100 years ago--is repeated often enough that it may be true. If so, it seems a good sign. And it helps explain why, in the middle of the Harvard University Forest, there are stone walls, some of them stretching for hundreds of yards beside what are now trails, under what are now pine trees. New England stone walls are marvelously precise, considering. The rocks fit so snugly that a hundred mortarless years have done nothing to displace them. As a reminder of the forest reclaiming the field, they...
...placid Concord is hidden. There are, however, lots of ferns, rotting logs, pine trees, deciduous trees, and horse-leavings. Once I emerged from the woods to find a familiar red-and-white shuttle bus at the entrance, bearing Biology students out for a serious day's work. But the Forest is big enough to swallow up any crowd; certainly it is among the most peaceable corners of this University...