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...Providence--Kristen Manheim, Kathy Guden, Lynne Campbell; Harvard--Carrie Shumway, Sarah Downing. A: Providence--Rebecca Mitchell; Harvard--None. S: Providence--Martiniello 20; Harvard--Milhollin...
News of the environmental assaults has unleashed a global wave of concern about Antarctica's future. "It is now clear that the continent's isolation no longer protects it from the impact of man," declares Bruce Manheim, a biologist with the Environmental Defense Fund. How best to protect Antarctica has been a topic of fierce debate in meetings from Washington to Wellington, New Zealand. Everyone agrees that the issue is of great importance and urgency. Despite the damage done so far, Antarctica is still largely pristine, the only wild continent left on earth. There scientists can study unique ecosystems...
Responsible tour operators have come up with a code of conduct that forbids visitors to harass animals, enter research stations unless invited, and take souvenirs. Preservationists, like the Environmental Defense Fund's Manheim, argue in addition for strict limits on the size and frequency of tours and for civil and criminal penalties for operators who do not comply with the rules...
...bland and utterly devoid of the weird, dark qualities that make it something of a masterpiece." With characteristic wit and technical wizardry, Sendak has restored those qualities. Marie, journeying from childhood to the altar, old Drosselmeier the taleteller and Nutcracker himself are no longer marzipan creations. In Ralph Manheim's vigorous new translation, mice and soldiers, clowns and children speak out as never before, and Sendak has found pictorial equivalents for their idiosyncrasies. The illustrations will be on deposit at the Rosenbach Museum and Library of Philadelphia, which owns Tenniel's original drawings for Alice in Wonderland...
...addition to the pro fessional translators like Manheim, writers and po ets in every era have felt a duty to give foreign literature a new life in another tongue. Goethe, who called this work "one of the most important and valuable concerns in the whole of world affairs," found time to translate literature from ten different languages into German. André Gide argued that every writer "has an obligation to render at least one foreign work of art into his own language." He chose Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, then went on to Hamlet. In America most major modern...