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...work, Graves says: "I am not so much a naturalist as some people suppose." His drawing, Loon Calling on an Autumn Lake (below), leaves little doubt that it records a scene Graves observed and pondered. But as he has brushed it in with ink, it catches overtones of the full-throated, eerie cry that summons up another world, both lonely and mysterious. For to Graves, Nature and Symbol are one when seen with the artist's inner eye. His Concentrated Pine Top (opposite), done on a vertical scroll, gives a sense of strength and detachment, and is as Oriental...
Glad to know who your Cinema reviewer is. I laugh like a loon at his witticisms...
This is the Voice of Audubon. There is a small loon, a redhead duck and an American coot on Jamaica Pond. Brown-capped chickadees and "white-winged crossbills may be seen in the Arnold Arboretum . . What birds do you have to report...
...soars with the grace of a loon...
...days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, a customer in a Detroit sa loon pointed at a slender, mustached young stranger and shouted: "That's John Wilkes Booth!" The stranger promptly drew a revolver, clouted the first man at hand and drove his boot into the belly of another. Then he backed out the door and dashed to the ferry. By putting his revolver to the ferry captain's head, he persuaded him to get started at once. Once on the Canadian side, he apologized for the "inconvenience," gave the captain $5 and walked...