Like Family (1965), a showpiece pairing of Ken Heyman's Family-of-Man photographs (over 180) and Mead's world view which could deflect us, at least for a time, from global disaster. In the current flux among sectors in various stages of development it is evident that the hopes of twenty-five years ago have not been realized. Mead reviews the failures in dealing with universal poverty, hunger, disease and ignorance—mainly the result of unlimited economic growth. Planners tended to think of the world "in parts"—autonomous powers vs. victims, customers, sources of raw materials, ideological converts. As she traces the conflicts and challenges of our times—urbanization, increase of crime, changes in expectations—Mead, like Heyman's camera, reaches for the general through the particular. In Mead's Weltanshauung "nothing is too small or large" to take into account as all of us hurtle into the future. Some ringing summit oratory complemented by empathic photographs.
Pub Date: March 1, 1976
ISBN: 0316564702
Page Count: 218
Publisher: Little, Brown
Review Posted Online: May 21, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1976
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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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