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Botany, Britain's public and private passion, is rooted in the late 18th century. In that formal, opulent era, imperial collectors sent a steady stream of exotic flora from the newly acquired lands of Africa and America, and the first plantings were made in what was to become the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In those heady years, Robert Thornton, a physician and amateur botanist, spent his passion and his fortune commissioning paintings and engravings that he hoped would become a national treasure. The Temple of Flora (New York Graphic Society; Ill pages; $35) is an exquisite review...
...collection of his writings, A Virgil Thomson Reader,has just been issued (Houghton Mifflin; 582 pages; $25). Convivially holding court in the suite that he has occupied for decades in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel, the old boy (as he has been fondly called) chats with a stream of visitors while fielding a barrage of calls from well-wishers and colleagues. (The phone's bell is amplified to fire-alarm intensity because of his partial deafness, his one apparent concession...
...uncommon in South Florida to see a stream of young people come up to a teller and count out just under $10,000 from overstuffed shopping bags for deposit. The major operators, who find this too cumbersome, have initiated a reverse airlift, sometimes using the same planes that fly drugs into Florida to take suitcases of cash out of the U.S. to discreet banks in places like the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands. Other dealers simply pay a commission, $ 10,000 a week or so, to the dwindling number of Florida bankers willing to fudge or forget their transfer reports...
Civilization," Durant once observed, "is a stream with banks." Most historians, he thought, concentrate on the stream, "which is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting." Durant was devoted to what happened on the banks. There, "unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry, whittle statues"-or write about...
...HIGHLIGHTS of Breaks, as of any Halberstam book, are the profiles--long and sensitive, almost stream-of-consciousness journeys into a character's past. In them Halberstam examines this book's dominant sub-text, race. Basketball today is a Black game played (in the pros) mostly by Blacks. Halberstam's discussion of the use of basketball as a route out of the ghetto is familiar to anyone interested in the sport, but he tells it with grace. More important are his examples of how race--not racism, exactly--still shapes the professional game: Owners who demand at least...