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...Editor Bernard Hollowood, "but he's too much concerned with nostrils, nipples and navels." Scarfe could reply that his critics are too cocksure of their own politics and resent his lack of dogma. "I try to avoid any political bias in my cartoons," says Scarfe, who does indeed heap abuse on every shade of opinion. "I'm neither for the right nor for the left. I simply must deride what I consider unjust...
...Maine neighbor, John Gatchell, as his oilskinned model. He rummaged junk shops to find the bell that served to symbolize a stalwart ship struggling across a boiling sea, only visible itself as a glimpse of whitecaps. It is a distant and different sea that splashes in watercolors in Shell Heap, with an angler bending to his catch while the breezy skies of Florida seem to whip palm fronds into an ominous rattle...
When Phillipps died in 1872, his grandson went to work selling off the collection of nearly 60,000 manuscripts and 50,000 books. It was not until recently that London rare-book dealers, still sorting through remnants of the Phillipps heap, found the prize of his collection. There, scattered loosely, in virtually perfect condition, were the 272 pages of what is believed to be the first book with English illustrations ever prepared for printing. They formed the first nine books of a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Books 10 through 15, unillustrated, were given to Cambridge University by Diarist...
...anticipation, the concentration on the present moment, which may be beneficial to the dying, is also what appeals to some of the young, for whom so much of life is deferred. "LSD impairs anticipation, and that's the sole characteristic that puts us on top of the animal heap," says Kast. "If people no longer feel the need to calculate the necessary delays before acting, then chaos could result." Often, relief over the lifted burden comes into conflict with a lingering sense of responsibility, and this, Kast suspects, is the cause of many a bad trip...
...notices than new apartments, and slum dwellers scornfully refer to urban renewal as "urban removal." While Washington lavishes $18 billion a year on a galaxy of welfare programs-to which state and local governments and private philanthropies add another $15 billion-only the crumbs reach the bottom of the heap...