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...Wilson suggests that Dickens, publishing most of his works in serial form, achieved the same intimate, regular contact with his audience as Scheherazade in his childhood favorite, The Arabian Nights. Dickens kept telling another tale. Jokes and fantasies, social and political critiques, plummy visions of Christmas swept from his pen. He even wrote a front-page article in his own magazine, Household Words, to explain and justify the breaking up of his staunchly Victorian marriage after 22 years...
...plans really aren't anywhere near completion-there are many, many things that have to be done before we can let the public know about all this," Wittrup said. "Most of the drawings are in felt-pen form-really nowhere near finalization...
Sabu, the Tucson zoo's young, 4,500-Ib. bull elephant, staged a prison riot last August. He charged Zoo Foreman Carl Weese, cracking cartilage, gashing him in the arm with his tusks. Weese was saved by a co-worker who rushed into Sabu's pen and began pounding the elephant on the trunk, driving him back...
...willful obscurantism sought to exorcise the French Revolution: "The world that had seen the fall of the Bastile," he wrote, "was bound to be a different world. To tilt against its fundamental principles may have been courage, but it was the courage which has been immortalized by the dangerous pen of Cervantes." But for "cyclical" Lipset there is never "a different world." It is ever and always the same, a world of domination. For as Adorno observed of Spengler, the principle of relentlessly self-per-petuating domination is hypostasized as something eternal and inexorable. James Shotwell in his penetrating critique...
...Theater, 1924-34, is aptly named, for the ceremonious dance of leaf and bloom, formal as an Islamic tile, stands to real plants as puppets do to real people. Yet the plants are alive, and their vitality is in the probing, inquisitive line that flowed from Klee's pen. He was an astounding draftsman, one of the virtuosos of the century. Whether tracing into cubist patterns the squares and towers of a Renaissance town (Italian City, 1928), or making a gay arabesque out of the contents of a moon-washed room (Still-Life: Plant and Window, 1927) or simply...