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...aspects of a secular, almost pagan holiday-a sense of propitiating an earth increasingly incapable of forgiving what man has inflicted upon it. Much of Earth Day was festive and faddish; yet it touched the American imagination with a memento mori, a vision primitive as trilobites and novel as the idea of a windless, uninhabited earth orbiting...
...made out of his sister's scarf-she never knew where it had gone ... a gabbing, ambitious, mock-tough, pretentious young man; and moley, too." Or he can roll all the world's seaside picnics into an impressionistic memory of one boyhood frolic: "August Bank Holiday-a tune on an ice-cream cornet. A slap of sea and a tickle of sand ... A wince and whinny of bathers dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses. A rolling of trousers ... A sunburn of girls and a lark of boys. A silent hullabaloo of balloons." Appearing near the first...
Warsaw watched 600,000 march. Prague staged its celebration in historic Wenceslaus Square, where citizens had wept when the Nazis swept in. Paris had a divided holiday-a traditional left-wing parade and a rival Gaullist music festival. Rome listened to speeches in the jampacked Piazza del Popolo. Peking's 200,000 celebrants chanted "Long live Sino-Soviet alliance...
Harvard Historian Schlesinger* is almost apologetic about this busman's holiday-a review of American books of etiquette from the 17th Century to the present day. "Nothing that concerns human beings can fail to concern the historian," he wrote; "the rise and progress of courtesy . . . deserves attention...
...Fiction A BOOK HUNTER'S HOLIDAY-A. S. W. Rosenbach-Honghton Mifflin ($4). Rich, rosy-cheeked Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach writes in a breezy after-dinner way on the romantic sidelights of book collecting in general, his own famed collection in particular, including such bargains as the Button Gwinnett letter at $51,000, five pages of the Pickwick Papers...