Word: pith
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...projects around Jersey City, N.J., which is where he learned things like how to use an eggbeater to work lactose powder into cocaine. Critics were awed by his combination of psychological nuance and journalistic detail. "They made it sound like I was out there with a notepad and a pith helmet," he says. But he started to doubt his own virtues. Sometimes he would take a kid from the projects into Manhattan, where the boy would be dazzled into numb silence by the place. "After a while I thought of myself as a big Thanksgiving float," he says. "The wind...
...With my pith hat, khaki shorts and net I wander through the neglected jungles of comix-dom. Considered a "crackpot" by those few who even know that I am deep in-country, I hack away at the bush in search of the unknown and little-cared-for creatures that signal this system still has life. Recently, while hiding from the brutish, ape-like natives who patrol the area, I spied a new species...
...mine own Anatomy," wrote John Donne, "dissected myself, and they are gone to read on me." This knowledge also gave writers a vocabulary that opened up new imaginative worlds. Donne describes the soul of a young girl, as it races through the stars and toward heaven, as "the pith, which, lest our bodies slack, / Strings fast the little bones of neck, and back; / So by the soul doth death string heaven and earth." Someone who hadn't seen a body dissected might have been able to draw the parallel, but probably not with the razor-sharp language that makes Donne...
...drinking beer on the bougainvillaea-draped patio, listening to the chirps of the wriggling geckos on the walls, and watching the world go by. And should I grow weary of my tropical tranquility, the downstairs bar beckoned. Complete with dusty wickerwork chairs, an ancient gramophone and a scattering of pith helmets, it looks straight out of a Graham Greene novel...
...with chimps, that I'm their hero and they want to be just like me, and what was it like in the jungle and did I really eat bugs?" says Goodall. "They send me wonderful pictures and book reports. I could paper a wall with little Jane Goodalls in pith helmets, what they think I looked like in the jungle." Naturally, the 2001 Jane Goodall also has a website, www.janegoodall.org In October, Scholastic published a compelling new children's book by Goodall, The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours. The text and lush photos, intended for kids...