Essays
… and the laws of the universe. I am nine years old in the computer lab of my public elementary school, and projected … then an inverted triangle within it connecting the midpoints of each side, coloring that internal triangle black … Wilder Hall’s ivy turned flaming red, then the leaves died on the vine, shriveled, and dropped. The first snow …
… is only fifty-one per cent of the corresponding figure ($262,-469,000) for 1929—and while banks are closing their … A graduate of the University of Nashville, Mr. Bilbo studied law at Vanderbilt and Michigan. His lasting interest in … state into brick paving blocks. When such roads, Mr. Bilbo points out, become worn on one side, nothing would be …
… Bowditch. By Alfred Stanford. New York: Wm. Morrow and Company. $2.50. Trader Horn. Edited by Ethelreda Lewis. New … II.” Nicolay had no historical or scholarly training, but commercialized the accumulation of notes which he had made … in the pages of Fenimore Cooper—for instance “The Two Admirals,” “The Pilot,” “Red Rover,” “Wing and Wing,” “Myles …
… Pasquier. By Georges Duhamel. New York: Henry Holt and Company. $275. Joy of Man’s Desiring. By Jean Giono. New … Defenders. By Franz Hoellering. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $2.75. Madame Dorthea. By Sigrid Undset. New York: … “Arrowsmith.” With ever increasing emphasis M. Duhamel reveals the conditions under which a zealous and selfless …
Reporting
… signs of a crisis nearly fifteen years ago. He had studied bird populations in Keoladeo National Park outside of … across the region. White-backed vultures were once the most common raptor on the Indian subcontinent, so omnipresent … thirty million white-backed vultures once coasted on thermals above South Asia. Now there are eleven thousand. By …
… Santa Fe Province, across ten miles of pitted gravel road, also held a promise. It, too, was fulfilled only after … was embedded so deeply in the old continent that accommodation to a dominant Christianity was impossible; … years. During that first year, 1889, some 60 children died of illnesses and deprivations. The people, living in …