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...George Orwell's Animal Farm, Dial Press rejected the book, explaining to Orwell, "It's impossible to sell animal stories in the United States." In trying to sell Richard Adams' story as a straight adult novel with trendy environmental over tones, Macmillan (also publisher of Jonathan Livingston Seagull) may be making the same mistake in reverse. All the praises and prizes that Water ship Down has received have gone to it as the kind of nature-loving and highly literate juvenile that British children can read much younger than their American counterparts. Says Adams: "I should...
...delivered by two little-known Manhattan psychoanalysts, fill a 54-page book that is selling at the rate of 10,000 a week. How to Be Your Own Best Friend (Random House; $4.95) is indeed heralded by some of its 250,000 readers as this year's Jonathan Livingston Seagull, promising yet another flight to happiness...
...role in long-term memory. The limbic system is concerned with affects-strong emotional experiences, for example-which people obviously remember. One part of the limbic system, the hippocampus, is indisputably vital to memory. Patients whose hippocampi have been destroyed or partially removed cannot recall new information. Dr. Robert Livingston of the University of California at San Diego postulates that the structure plays the same role in memory as the "now store" button does on a computer, determining whether a particular bit of information is to be stored or discarded...
...colonial age in Africa stampeded in as the British, French, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Italians all raced into the interior of Africa in the year following the 1870 explorations of Livingston and Stanley. In this mad scramble for a piece of Africa, one government often annexed territory hurriedly simply to prevent another from doing so first; colonies came to have enormous value in symbolism and prestige...
...search of the perfect wave, glider people seek the perfect updraft-a magical surge of rising air that bestows a feeling of buoyant freedom. Thousands of Americans, from the mountainsides of Hawaii to the dunes of Cape Hatteras, are yielding to what Richard Bach calls "the real Jonathan Livingston Seagull who lives within...