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...Alaska must reluctantly claim the title as "the world's tallest rubbish heap." Our Mount McKinley has nearly 6,000 ft. more garbage and litter than Mount Whitney. Climbers report having to pick their way through banana peels, cans, and food wrappers to reach the top of North America...
...Fourth of July, and Joshua M. Rubins '70, dean of students at the Summer School, is sitting at his baby grand piano. Sheet music by Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart and Rubins himself litter his Lehman Hall office. "I'm sort of the resident Cambridge musical comedy buff," says Rubins. "I've studied it carefully. I'm really more than...
Bearded, bare-chested, and languishing on an oyster-shell litter, Larry Carpenter is an acceptable Duke Orsino, more in love with the idea of love than with its object, Countess Olivia. Caroline McWilliams imbues the pretentiously mourning Olivia with graceful warmth and some delectable touches of sarcasm ("We will hear this divinity"). After her impetuous marriage to Sebastian, however, she neglects to wear the wedding ring referred to in the text...
...presence of nature. Just as the traveling painters of the past century like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran imposed a particular vision of the West on our ancestors, Adams has imposed his on us. It is still America before its fall, a rugged paradise unmarred by the nasty litter and twitter of Homo sapiens. No living photographer of landscape seems able to match the amplitude of Adams' work - those vast and feathered skies, those muscular loops of river, those cannonball moons gravely pre siding over cliffs and rocks that, in their solidity of tone, seem like concretions of geological...
...SCRAP of newspaper blows among the litter of the railroad tracks. A group of people wait on Platform 5 of Baltimore's Penn Station for the 9:45 a.m. train to New York. A middle-aged man dressed in a spotless grey-flannel suit waits nervously with his wife. Her face is heavily powdered and her hair is piled high on her head. Close to the track a wrinkled-looking man in a creased sear-sucker sports coat checks his watch and begins to pace in a narrow circle. His sparse white mustache stands out on his lined black face...