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Frank O'Connor's early life of Michael O'Donovan belongs with the best of its kind. It is that of a man who has made his life important to others simply because he has written about it with art. It is also a specimen of that mythical work for which the U.S. public is said to hanker-the tragedy with a happy ending...
Mindful that the French had set off an atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
Nutcracker Man relates to his predecessor as, say, Marlboro Man relates to Viceroy Man. The lines of development are clear: Marlboro Man was a rough, inarticulate and profoundly simple specimen, setting the tone for the advertising in the era known as the Eisenhower Fifties. Viceroy Man is suave, and cultivated, and knows how to talk and drink with Harvard professors be meets in Washington. He is the figure of the Kennedy Sixties...
...Shaggy-haired Afghan hounds were originally bred as royal hunting dogs. U.S. Afghan fanciers say that $2,200 is not excessive for a fine specimen...
...dreams, and speak out against war, and be often crackerbarrel and occasionally caustic. America has always fancied down-to-earth figures who look up at the stars and whose voices can both ring out and drawl, and in the 82-year-old Sandburg it has a notable specimen...