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Otis Dozier's themes-grasshoppers and bulls, Indian corn in the hot summer fields, a humid-swamp night scene-can be readily identified by any Texan. But his grasshopper is not just a laboratory specimen; it is a wondrous creature of heat and noise. When he painted Brahma Bull, Dozier did not try to provide a guessing game for Texas cattlemen adept at estimating values on the hoof, but to capture "the thing you always feel about a bull. He's the most powerful of the animal kingdom, and he seems to know it." In Place...
...have just finished reading your story on Robert Wagner [Oct. 1]. It was a fine piece of writing, and strikes one like a breath of fresh air in this year's humid political atmosphere...
Announcer: A wave that stays-on hot and humid days? This summer have a wave that really holds up, a wave with more natural body than any other permanent...
...folds of draperies, in cosmetics, in crevices and corners of furniture. Quick tests showed a high content of arsenate of lead. The source of the deadly fallout: the painted roses of the ceiling. The experts also found that the heavily leaded paint exuded fumes in Rome's humid weather. The conclusion: for 20 months Ambassador Luce had been breathing arsenated fumes, had been eating food and drinking coffee powdered day after day with the deadly white dust...
...America, college life is one of exemplary ease. I liked Harvard for its naive display of an idealized Anglo-Saxon world, engendered by the memories of emigres, for the dazzling colors in the humid warmth--halls, monuments and lawns arising from a deluge in which European civilization would have perished. At Harvard, white and blue bulbous bell-towers of the dormitories, with their splendor comparable to English chateaux, the Anthenian or Napoleonic-styled libraries, the trees sprayed with D.D.T. every week, Memorial Hall (which is a miniature Westminster), all appear to have been constructed to reassure young Americans...