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Keith County Journal, a collection of essays about desolate Nebraska grasslands, has already invited comparison with such lapidary works as Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The book belongs in that company. Like Blake seeing a world in a grain of sand, Professor Janovy discerns universes in the creeks, bogs and fields of the Sandhills country. He makes the reader care for creatures as large as the great blue heron, as small as the inch-long plains killifish, and as obscure as the parasites of the genus Trich-odina that...
MARRIED. Rex Harrison, 70, English film and stage actor; and Mercia Tinker, fortyish, Singapore-born Swiss brunette; he for the sixth time; in Pawling...
...became the first academic vice president of Caltech; University of Chicago Experimental Physicist Robert Millikan, whose prestige attracted many to the young school; and Astronomer and Cosmologist George Ellery Hale, the school's visionary godfather. Because of their academic specialties, the founding trio are irreverently known as "Stinker, Tinker and Thinker...
...impassioned plea for a land ethic more than 30 years ago, three years after the holocausts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But little has changed in America, (or anywhere else, for that matter.) Man is still intoxicated with his own technology, and through his creations he feels he must tinker with the forces of nature to accommodate his limitless whims and needs...
...gives a tinker's damn about the Democratic Party in Massachusetts? There's been a decay of this private section business of party politics, of individuals acting as private people--cause groups, political parties, NAACP, and so on--the public sector has taken over and so have the technocrats, the bureacracies, and what I like to call the topocrats...