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...Sunlight & Shadow...
Moist Magic. It will be very green, for irrigated land outproduces most land that is only "sky-watered." Desert soil has not been leached by heavy rain of its soluble plant nutrients. The sunlight keeps plants awake and growing. Most important of all, a skilled irrigator can give his plants just the right amount of water. Natural rainfall seldom does this; most seasons have wet or dry spells that check plant growth...
Even while Du Pont expanded its nylon production, it built a $17 million plant at Camden, S.C. whose product may partially eclipse nylon itself. This fiber is Orion, a cousin of nylon but far stronger, more resistant to sunlight. The U.S. textile industry is already using it in men's summer suits and spun hose, women's dresses, auto tops and a wealth of new decorator fabrics. (But Du Pont will get stiff competition from Union Carbide's Dynel, an Orion-type fiber...
...triumphant old age, Turner took into his province such formless things as snow, wind, mist and sunlight, painted them with a radiance that has not yet been surpassed. As a young art critic, John Ruskin saw their greatness, but most of Turner's fellow academicians did not. Because Turner dared paint sunsets as they really look, and because toward the end he cared not a hoot for composition, he was accused of tastelessness. He still is, but good taste remains a refuge of minor artists, one Turner had no need...
...that time, he became one of America's most brilliant journalists, sharpest wits and sourest cynics. His quarry was "conglomerate man . . . a tangled wad of rattlesnakes thawing and reeking in the Spring sunlight." Purdue University's Paul Fatout has uncoiled the tangled temperament of Cynic Bierce in a lively and readable new biography...