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Environmentalists praised Nixon and Council Chairman Russell Train* for presenting laymen with a concise and informative primer that will doubtless keep environmental concerns alive on Capitol Hill. But in the most important area -specific action and enforcement-the report seemed to founder in merely hortatory language...
...glory of the book is its language. H. Hatterr, the hero and narrator, is the son of a European merchant and a Malayan lady. Orphaned in India, he ran away from his mission orphanage, taking with him the mission funds and three books-an English dictionary, a Latin primer, and a French primer. With this start he educated himself, taught himself English, but an English far superior to any he could have learned in school, a wild soaring English free of the dullness of grammatical conventions and "standard" usage. His is an English precise and exact, but exuberantly alive...
...Made Environment: Book Seven is, quite simply, the best primer on architecture and urban planning yet published in the U.S. Designed to open the eyes of seventh graders to the world being built around them, the book has much to teach adults as well...
...more specialized way. Tatum's Handbook for Conscientious Objectors is also an essential primer. As the continuing war has daily convinced more men that they cannot lend their bodies to the cause, draft boards have become increasingly irritable about claims for Conscientious Objector status-and carefully prepared claims have become imperative...
Some of Eames' award winning films include "Blacktop and Parade" (1950), "A Communication Primer" (1953), "House" (1955), "Toccata for Toy Trains" (1957), "Math Peep Shows" (1961), and "Think" (multi-screen...