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...beneath the surface) and tree dozing (a crawler tractor with a tree bit on the front uproots each tree). Tree dozing worked so well on John Cargile's ranch at Arden, Texas, that whole stretches of his range are innocent of mesquite. The land gives an impression of splendid cleanliness. A creek flows not far from the ranch house-a sweet luxury in a dry country. Cargile and his wife Ta will take a guest there for a picnic on a moonlit evening, and there is something almost profligate in the sound of the water flowing...
...book than this to make such a case, much less transcribe it into a persuasive narrative. Readers new to Cheever are likely to find Oh What a Paradise It Seems fragmentary, preachy and thin. But the book is illuminated by its past; it assumes significance from the history of splendid fiction that Cheever has given it and everyone. -By Paul Gray
...Metropolitan Museum, and Clifford LaFontaine, design associate and project coordinator. Architect Kevin Roche, of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates, did create the building itself; however, the actual installation was the inspired work of Silver and LaFontaine. We feel it is important to assign credit to them for their splendid achievement...
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Gerald Hilton. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science, who delivered the Jefferson Lecture last year, called Vermule "a splendid choice" and described the lecture as "a rather grand occasion by the standards of an academic...