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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Island of the Blue Dolphins (Dell) and The Black Pearl (Houghton Mifflin), by Scott O'Dell; 95? each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paperback Dividend: Children's Books | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

...make another General Billy Mitchell of Admiral Zumwalt? The admirals who oppose him are the same as the ones who wept when Mitchell's planes dropped dummy bombs on their battle wagons, the same as the ones who lined up the battle wagons at Pearl Harbor to scare the Japanese. They have always been guided by rigid stupidity. I don't believe the conflict is basically racial. It was the same in World War II with no blacks. If officers treat men justly and fairly, the men will respect them and carry out orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1972 | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...mild indeed compared to the mania which swept the country between 1892 and 1898. In those days the army made pedalers out of cavalrymen, police speed traps caught "scorchers," and Diamond Jim Brady paid $10,000 for Lillian Russell's wheel. It has mother-of-pearl handlebars, spokes encrusted with jewels and-scandalous!-a custom-fitted seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Costs and Colors of Christmas | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...19th century appearance. The houses and factories and warehouses are packed together in unplanned gray proximity; the skyline of low roofs is broken only by scores of factory chimneys pouring out smoke into the fetid air. It could be a daguerreotype of industrial Liverpool, except that the Pearl River is alive with sampans and junks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Dividends of Rediscovery | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...like the hexagonal iron-brown dish bearing a figure of Juro, the dumpy little god of longevity. Korin had an almost miraculous sense of materials; witness his writing box, with a design of irises, pool and bridge. The iris leaves and stems are gold lacquer, the flowers mother-of-pearl inlay, the bridge columns are rendered in silver while the planks, which run diagonally across the lid and down the sides, are dull inlaid lead. What Renaissance casket would not look fussy and florid beside this container? But it was in painting that Korin's virtuosity showed; especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spare Clarity | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

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