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...scare story? Not quite. Today, the authoritative "red data book" of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources lists 835 "endangered species and subspecies" that hover on the brink of extinction. Among their habitats and situations...
...disappearing, a victim of the decline in tax collections, federal pay raises and the Cambodian invasion. Nixon tried to help out the stock market by making some bullish remarks, and the Federal Reserve chipped in last week by reducing margin requirements from 80% to 65%. Yet stocks continued to hover close to the low that they reached after the assassination of President Kennedy...
KAFKA SUPPOSED that the artist was like a "soaring dog," like the small animals floating invisible through the world above our heads: "They have no relation whatever to the general life of the community, they hover in the air, and that is all, and life goes on its usual way; someone now and then refers to art and artists, but there it ends." Poets would like to emulate the Investigations of Kafka's dogs, or even become fish, as Virgil Thompson has suggested; for they have always found the chore of living among the forms of possibility a tedious...
...command vehicle, Odyssey, will be sent into a more elliptical lunar orbit that will drop it to a height of only nine miles before Aquarius is released. As a result, the lunar lander will use less fuel in its final descent and have enough left to hover a crucial 15 seconds longer before touching down. That extra time may well be necessary to find a level landing site on the rugged landscape...
MARK ROTHKO'S paintings lead you into calm thought, into an atmosphere of color, that dissolves any word attempting to describe it. From surrcalistic forms his images evolved into monumental rectangles that hover on the canvas. His color is subtle and strange. Part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, his work differed radically in tone and form from the others, like Jackson Pollock and William de Kooning. The simplicity of his rectangles foresaw the purity but not the hardness of the images of minimal...