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...Napoleon's day, when the British blockade prevented the import of finer metals), orthopedic corsets, bird cages, croupiers' roulette rakes, ornate medieval shop signs, kitchen utensils, 3,000 keys, 700 padlocks, 600 door knockers, and more than 100 pairs of scissors, including one shaped like a pelican with the blades forming its beak. Coffee mills designed to grind the precious beans in the 17th century, when Madame de Sévigné purportedly scoffed that "Racine will pass-like coffee," bear little resemblance to the streamlined models sold in France today, but their shape is basically the same...
...that there is at least one corroborating witness, is simple: binoculars, a copy of Roger Tory Peterson's A Field Guide to the Birds, and a car to enable them to cover a greater variety of habitats quickly. Thus, beginning at dawn, 20 members of Florida's Pelican Island Audubon Society raced through the boondocks south of Cape Kennedy to cover a 15-mile-wide circle of fresh-water marshes, piny woods and citrus groves; whenever their cars stopped, their binoculars popped up and down like yo-yos. They quit early at dusk, satisfied at having spotted...
Evans is now a professor at the University of Illinois, where he has taught for 20 years. He has edited "Shakespeare Prompt-books of the Seventeenth Century," "The Tragedy of Richard the Third" in The Pelican Shakespeare, and "The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright...
...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The Blind Bird, produced in Russia, tells of a boy's attempts to restore the sight of his pet pelican...
...performance of a play different from the kind they usually perform, and they carry it off superbly. I suspect that the conditions of this production have taught them a lot about their own acting, and this is not the least important function of student theatre. In producing The Pelican, Tom Babe enthralled his audience, fulfilled his responsibility to his cast, and effectively brought experimental workshop techniques back into the Loeb Experimental Theatre...