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OBLOMOV (485 pp.)-Ivan Goncharov-Penguin (paperback...
...book. The Ant World (Penguin Books; 50?), British Entomologist Derek Wragge Morley keeps insisting that ants are ants, and must not be confused with humans. But readers who follow him on his rounds through the cities of the ants will find many reminders of human behavior...
...When Penguin first started the project six years ago, it picked as its editor Nikolaus Pevsner, Slade professor of fine art at Cambridge, and gave him a budget of $700,000 to get the job done. He laid out an ambitious program, including seven volumes for ancient art, four more for the Far East, seven for Britain, six for Italy, and six for the Americas, Spain, Germany and Holland. To write them, he picked such experts as Charles Seymour Jr. from Yale, Paul Frankl from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and John Pope-Hennessy from Britain...
...publishers of London's Penguin Books, who have sold more than 180 million paperbacks at 10? to 70? apiece, are working up something special for art lovers: a 48-volume Pelican History of Art, bound in cloth covers and priced at $8.50 a volume. The new series, to be published over the next twelve years, will replace the only two comprehensive histories of art in existence-one in French, one in German and both now out of date...
Much went wrong on the first flight of the droopy-nosed X3, but not much may be told about it. During its first attempt, it did not fly faster than a modern jet bomber, and at this speed, far below its design speed, its penguin wings probably gave it little margin of stability. After a stint of unstable flopping and wobbling, the engines began to act up. The phantom crew in the trailer sensed the danger instantly...