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Rarely, except in Robert Flaherty's documentaries, has nature been so truly or so tangibly rendered on the screen. Deliverance is splendidly photographed (by Vilmos Zsigmond) and edited (by Tom Priestley). Images sweep by the eye in great, violent cascades that transcend Dickey's prose renderings of the same terrain...
...PRIESTLEY MEDAL...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, is the 1971 winner of the American Chemistry Society's Joseph Priestley Medal, the highest honor in American chemistry...
...Miss Pullar, her history, and history in general, goes downhill after the Industrial Revolution. "Not since Imperial Rome can there have been so many signposts to gluttony," J.B. Priestley wrote of the Edwardians. (Edward VII's breakfast: haddock, poached eggs, bacon, chicken and woodcock.) Yet coexisting with gluttony, comparatively unimaginative gluttony, was malnutrition. Only one of three Englishmen of military age was found fit for World...
...Edwardians by J.B. Priestley. Illustrated. 302 pages. Harper & Row. $ 15. The lower classes were wretched and the Boer War was a scandal, but in the main the Edwardians were as self-possessed as their older brothers, the late Victorians, and a good deal gayer. The Empire was at its apogee; surveying his South African fortune and keeping his subjunctives firmly in place, Cecil Rhodes said, "If there be a God I think he would like me to paint as much of Africa British-Red as possible." Yet great social reforms at home permitted the top authors-Kipling, Shaw and Wells...