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Manhattan's bird-painting fans flocked last week to Fifth Avenue's Audubon House to cock their eyes and twitter over a new set of Southern bird pictures. Few bird lovers would crook their necks to look at a Rembrandt. But they will flock like wild geese to see a well-drawn picture of a roseate spoonbill's rump sticking out of a swamp. And these pictures were unusual, not only for the meticulous exactitude with which they depicted the spreading wings of buffleheads, warblers and herons, but for the realism with which they reproduced the iridescent...
Theme of this gracefully padded first novel: intellectuals are hawks, plain citizens are sparrows. Intellectual Kipter, a bearded, philosophical, moulting bird, goes to board in a nest of lower-middle-class sparrows: a voluptuous ex-chorus girl and her 17-year-old niece. Fascinated, the female sparrows twitter around his bedroom, while Kipter pays them cautious compliments. Blamed for fouling the nest when he merely pushes the landlady out to protect his virtue, the hawk makes a back-window exit just in time to save his tail feathers. Hawk Among the Sparrows is less a warning to high-flying intellectuals...
...island of the trees in the greenland of the silk-silence I stand before a so afternoon in fire it is himmelstufig in the bramble-world the stems sheen the birds flute-twitter in an oubli of temps what am I waiting...
...Lawyer Douglas learned all that he cared to know about the current state of corporate law. He returned to Columbia to teach, having gained little respect and no love for Wall Street law or finance. Today he can accept a luncheon invitation from Morgan Partner George Whitney without a twitter. When Joe Kennedy drafted him to conduct SEC's investigation of protective committees, Mr. Douglas was occupying the well-upholstered chair of a Sterling Professorship at the Yale Law School. Having since ploughed through the mire of 200,000 committees, which in varying degrees were ostensibly protecting an investors...
...twerp, as Reader Propes should know without dictionary-thumbing, is a small, pretentious, ineffective and unpleasant person whose mode of self-expression falls between a twitter and a chirp...