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There are exceptions. The Fox, illustrated by Peter Spier (Doubleday; $2.95), has delicate, colored pen drawings, and the text, an old song, is good enough to sing. Mary Britton Miller's Listen-the Birds, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Pantheon; $3), achieves unpatronizing verse. The poet knows enough about chickadees to know they actually say chicka-dee-dee-dee, but the child who hopes to see live birds like the ones illustrated will be sadly deceived. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl (Knopf; $3.95), has illustrations in good old-fashioned pen and ink, though the subject matter...
happiness -penás, -pán- n -ES [happy + -ness) 1 archaic : good
fortune : good luck : PROSPERITY
...fame, to Britain's turn-of-the-century Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, and three viceroys of India (Curzon, Chelmsford, Halifax). Typically, the Fellows lean heavily to law and history. Only recently did All Souls elect its first modern scientist. Geneticist (specialty: butterflies) Edmund B. Ford, but the belated-ness of this honor fails to disturb Warden John H. A. Sparrow, a former barrister. "Is it more important to be like everyone else," he asks, "or to be like yourself...
When Cordiner finished his explaining, the inevitable sniping began. Mrs. Wilma Soss, an inveterate needier at company meetings and president of the Federation of Women Shareholders in American Busi ness, waggled an arm at Cordiner and demanded that he resign. "You are an embarrassment to the company," she blared. "I am your employer...
...that the play itself was enough to hold one's attention. When there is action on stage, as in the dueling scenes, if it is never quite convincing, it is at least not ludicrous. Lee's set was simple, even elegant, a very good approximation of Elizabethan conditions. Modern-ness was reduced to the necessities, like lighting and a few silly stools that people kept dragging...