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...WING ON A FLEA (by Ed Emberley; Little, Brown; $2.95) is a precise ballet of triangles, rectangles and circles performed in an amusing thicket of Steinbergian curlicues. Through a repetition of designs, the author-illustrator opens a child's eyes to the similes and metaphors of nature, the recurring likenesses that link man and animal in the great chain of being. "A triangle is the wing on a flea/ And the beak on a bird/ If you'll just look and see . . . A bandit's bandanna/ An admiral's hat/ And in case...
...scene, with its stately polonaise, now consisted of a hurried procession of guests who appeared to be on their way to a cookout. The television camera could not encompass the crowd effects that are so important to Boris; and the Idiot at opera's end had only a thicket of birch .trees, rather than a forest, in which to sing his prophetic curtain song...
Unfortunately, German philosophers write like German philosophers. Intellectually, Jaspers is easier to lose than to follow. The reader has an uneasy sensation of being caught in a brambly thicket of dialectics. But the book has a staunch nobility of spirit that commands respect...
...combatants. It is a part of U.S. Atomic Age folklore that there is no use trying to prepare for nuclear attack, that once deterrence fails all is lost. This attitude largely accounts for the feebleness of the U.S.'s civil defense programs. Backing up his case with a thicket of facts and figures, Kahn argues that advance preparations could make a difference between, say, 20 million and 80 million casualties...
Brightening the Dull. Through the densest economic thicket Sylvia blazes a simple trail. "You wouldn't by any chance have $460 tucked away in your pocketbook or wallet or lying around the house this minute, would you?" she once asked in her column. "As a typical American family, that's the astounding total you're now supposed to be holding in CASH. The statistics are indisputable, unassailable." After this arresting lead, guaranteed to nail the typical American reader, she led a quick tour of a difficult subject: a report on the national currency hoard...