Hosannas for American farming as the biggest, the best, the most bountiful in the world—and a raspberry for those backward little guys in Europe and Asia about whose prodigies of production Paulsen evidently knows nothing at all. This is naked hucksterism, likable when Paulsen is recounting the crazy history of sheep-raising, questionable when he attributes the decimation of buffalo herds to an inexorable need for leather and prairie farmland, pernicious—and dead wrong—when he ascribes every agricultural advance,whether in stock breeding, equipment development, or cooperative organization, to American initiative. The last lapse is the outdated, reiterated assertion that "there is no surplus of food anywhere in the world"—which will be news to American farmers in 1977. But in this saga of conquest there are no falling incomes either, no subsidies, no Farmers Union, no Cargill or Del Monte or other agri-businesses. No index, for that matter, not that there'd be anything to look up.
Pub Date: Oct. 20, 1977
ISBN: 0133047741
Page Count: -
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Review Posted Online: Oct. 18, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1977
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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