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Several months after writing a book on the topic, Karl S. Guthke, Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, has brought his pursuit to understand man's concern for life on other worlds down to earth, in a new exhibition of rare books and magazines at Houghton Library...
...historian, I was interested in how thinkers have approached this subject." Guthke said, adding that he will also offer a lecture on the topic, tomorrow afternoon in Houghton's Exhibition Room...
...workers, with no other employment options, may hang on. Polaroid, for example, suffered an unintended loss last May from its early-retirement plan. Richard Young, 56, who was Polaroid's $210,000-a-year director of worldwide marketing, "retired" with a hefty pension and later became president of Houghton Mifflin, the book publishers, at a slightly lower salary...
...tale of moral instruction is making a comeback. Exhibit A: Help! Let Me Out! (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95). In this psychological fantasy, Hugo learns to throw his voice. The disembodied sound has a life of its own, like Gogol's nose, appearing on the moon, at the circus and even at school, where it spouts wisdom like "Alaska is the President of Brazil." David Lord Porter's whimsical prose and David Macaulay's antic drawings combine to sustain an air of credible lunacy to the indisputable punch line: "Be careful what you throw away. You might want...
...aura of a gaslit nobility, and burnish an antique until it shines. With two previous books, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi and last year's Jumanji, Chris Van Allsburg has become the reigning master of black-and-white illustration. In his third work, Ben's Dream (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95), the pictorial style far outdistances the story. Ben falls asleep and abruptly finds himself awash in a second flood. Only the tops of things show: the head and shoulders of the Statue of Liberty, the tip of Big Ben, the peak of Mount Rushmore, where the bust of George...