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...Normally, one would want a photograph, specimen or more than one observer," says Roger Tory Peterson, noted ornithologist-artist. "But Diamond seems credible, and, knowing New Guinea, I am not surprised by his boat trouble." According to Donald Bruning, curator of birds at the Bronx Zoo, Diamond is "one of the half-dozen people most qualified to identify this bowerbird...
Wednesday night is "Zoo Night" at Crazy Zach's, where drats are a whopping nickel from eight to ten. After loosening up for a quarter, dance the "shag", a predominantly southern dance resembling the jitter bug, done to "beach music," an adulteration of R&B revival hits...
...Mabel on her vast ranch. Miles reveals his perception of Lawrence's character: Incensed by the Indians performing their sacred dances for the pleasure of the company. I awrence suddenly starts breaking dishes. While it is surely understandable that he does "not want to be part of a literary zoo," there is no reason he should so violently erupt into a temper-tantrum a twelve-year-old would be ashamed to call his own. Lawrence's lack of character development alternated with explosive, melodramatic scenes, make him seem more a psychopath than an artist...
...White's collected essays and letters--proves once more White's claim to the title of master craftsman. Much of the material is dated or insignificant; the pieces that work, though, work so well. Two sketches, one the account of the birth of a baby deer in the Bronx Zoo, the other a description of city pigeons, are exemplary of White's best work. Nature, especially the small manifestations of nature--breezes not gales--and the precarious manifestations of nature, have traditionally been best expressed by writers of this...
Masquerading as a self-help book, and claiming to be a scientific treatise, Our Useless Fears is more like a guided tour of the San Diego zoo. The human menagerie paraded across its pages might benefit from Dr. Wolpe's theories; but for the average reader--neither traumatized by sunrise nor terrified by frogs--the book is as useless as the fears it describes...