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...also reasonably clear that a part-Eskimo pilot, one Ross Guildenstern, will blend his dark good looks with Chris's golden beauty to help produce a better Alaska. On the way to an unexceptional ending, Author Ferber generously shares with the reader all her newfound, often interesting Alaskan lore-and when she raises her voice, it sounds as though she really cares...
...Artist as Undertaker. Novelist Dohrman follows his ostensible theme-that Nature makes men weak-at the expense of his real one, learned too late by Owen: "If we are weak, we are not strong, and what we are, you see, ruins everything." In voodoo lore, Baron Samedi is the chief of the legion of the dead; he is represented by a wooden cross decked out, scarecrow fashion, in a black bowler hat, morning coat and goggles. In an ironic way, the baron is Author Dohrman's severest critic. How much closer can a writer get to the portrait...
...Yorker Staffer Brooks writes a clear reportorial style, so coolly equable that at times it scarcely reaches the room temperature needed to sustain living characters. He reserves his warmest affection for the lore of "The Street" itself, from Trinity's spire to the pockmarks preserved in the side of the Morgan bank from the 1920 bombing. The Street may be mildly amused to hear that it is a psychosocial arena of U. v. non-U., and that to the combatants, gaining acceptance is more important than capital gains. As far as Wall Street knows, the real hassle going...
...choose patterns and shades for each degree, Clifford and Venables spent a year poking through ancient records and sifting the lore of tailors along High Street. Bound in leather, handwritten on parchment and illustrated with swatches of material, their specifications are stored for the ages in the University Archives. One fiat of the new book: nylon fur is out. Sniffs Gentlemen's Tailor Venables: "Any fur on an academical hood ought to come from an indigenous animal...
...calendar-making, if not in science, is the Zodiac Man (opposite) drawn for Jean de France, Due de Berry, between 1413-16 by the famed manuscript illuminators, the Limbourg brothers. Now one of the treasures of France's Condé Museum and a magnificent compendium of astrological lore, it was meant for the use of physicians, giving the proper time for bloodletting, purgatives, medication and even bathing. Showing a universe divided into quadrants composed of the qualities (moist, dry, cold and warm), and put in harmony with man's organs and appendages (Leo governs the heart; Pisces governs...