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...graduating computer scientist per year and Katrina H. Avery '61 manager of the school's computer science department, says the 13 professors (five tenured) and 35 course in not enough. With the growing interest in specializing just learning a little bit about computers. "It's a zoo around here ," she says. "We have 800 students pre-registered for a course that will admit 150. Every undergraduate wants in take Computer Science...
...Brancusi, Stein, Pound, Joyce's wife Nora, and has dinner with Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. Bryher proves to be a great traveler who mingles comfortably and is resourceful under pressure. In London, during World War II, she had cloth woven from camel hair collected at the city zoo. She also tried to raise chickens during the blitz, but the birds ate their own eggs. Just as well. H.D. would not eat chicken for fear that it might be cat. What is a biographer to do? - By R.Z. Sheppard
...Columbus and Magellan but also about the half-forgotten Cheng Ho, a Chinese eunuch who set forth in the 15th century with a gigantic fleet of more than 300 vessels and nearly 40,000 men. Exploring as far as Zanzibar, Chêng Ho brought back to the imperial zoo its first giraffe, which the Chinese were convinced was a unicorn, whose horn was said to provide the most powerful of aphrodisiacs...
Four centuries are represented in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack Prelutsky ($13.95). William Blake is here; so are Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, alongside such modern versifiers as Spike Milligan, Eve Merriam and Karla Kuskin. A zoo of creatures passes in review, from pachyderms ("I think they had no pattern/ When they cut out the elephant's skin;/ Some places it needs letting out,/ And others, taking in") to birds ("The song of canaries/ Never var ies,/ And when they're moulting/ They're pretty revolting"). Anthologist Prelutsky gives equal time...
...Book of Insects (Abrams; 283 pages; $50) offers a more generous definition of the six-legged creatures: "Fellow inhabitants of our fragile planet earth." But what fellows! Bombardiers and borers, water sprites, builders and architects, singers and aviators all fly, hop and crawl through the pages of this extraordinary zoo without screens. A commonplace grasshopper on a black-eyed Susan takes on the dazzle of a Van Gogh landscape; a mangrove glows like a Christmas tree as thousands of fireflies illuminate its heavy branches. The text, by Naturalists Lorus and Margery Milne, is full of felicities: "It is often...