"The Once and Future Sun" Ron Cowen, in Science News (Mar. 26,1994), 1719 N St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
The sun's extinction may not be one of humankind's more pressing concerns, but the star that gives us life appears, like today's baby boomers, to be approaching middle age. At about 4.5 billion years of age, it is more than one-
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third of the way through its expected life span.
Like a baby boomer, the sun is going to get
fatter, but it's also going to get b...
boomer, the sun is going to get
fatter, but it's also going to get brighter. The
long-term outlook for the sun's earthbound cli-
ents is not good. Astrophysicist I.-Juliana
Sackmann of the California Institute of Technol-
ogy and two colleagues recently tried to chart
the sun's fate, reports Science News writer
Cowen. During the next 1.1 billion years or so,
its brightness will increase 10 percent. Accord-
ing to a model proposed six years ago James
F. Kasting of Pennsylvania State University,...
Robert Lane, in ELH (Spring 1994), Dept. of English, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md. 21218.
When Kenneth Branagh's much-praised film Henry V appeared in 1989, many critics com- pared it with Laurence Olivier's 19944 movie ver- sion of the play. They said that Branagh presents 'a much darker world" and a more complex King Henry than the earlier film did. That may be so. But when Branagh's version is compared with Shakespeare's, argues Lane, an English pro- fessor at North Carolina State...
Henry as ture. Four years later, he took his portfolio to surrogate parent), the king at once acknowl- Philadelphia, then to New York, and finally to edges and disavows any role in bringing England and Scotland, before he found financial about. The Boy's innocence, with his blood, backing and an engraver to copy his works. The spills over onto the king." Birdsof America, wluch came out in four volumes
Shakespeare acutely recognized "the persis- between 1827 and 1838, consisted of 435...
contrast, "sought to gain direct knowledge of his subjects in their natural set- tings traversing woods, plains, and swamps all over the land," May notes. He rarely painted stuffed specimens but instead "drew directly from freshly killed birds in order to capture the shapes, textures, and colors as accurately as possible. He threaded birds with wire to set them in poses which were both characteristic of their daily activities, such as foraging or hunting prey, and aesthetically pleasing."
In...
Mark Lilla, in Daedalus (Spring 1994),Norton's Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
During the years between the world wars, it was hard for even the warmest advocates of Euro- pean liberalism to imagine the whole of Western Europe living under stable liberal governments anytime soon. The future belonged to commu- nism, fascism, socialism-anything but liberal- ism. Remarkably, observes Lilla, a professor of politics and French studies at New YorkUniver- sity, liberalism has triumphed.
Yet...
Mark Lilla, in Daedalus (Spring 1994),Norton's Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
During the years between the world wars, it was hard for even the warmest advocates of Euro- pean liberalism to imagine the whole of Western Europe living under stable liberal governments anytime soon. The future belonged to commu- nism, fascism, socialism-anything but liberal- ism. Remarkably, observes Lilla, a professor of politics and French studies at New YorkUniver- sity, liberalism has triumphed.
Yet...
staying in Ireland and writing out of their experience of it, they have had to [deal with] a period of radical change and unsettlement" on the island, observes O'Toole, a columnist for the Iris11 Times. Their work, as a result, has aroused international in- terest in modern Ireland.
For artists from the North, such as Brian Friel (who lives in rural Donegal) and fellow play- wright Frank McGuinness (Someone Who'll Watch Over Me), dealing with change 'lias meant facing up to the traumas of...
one- third between 1991 and '92. In a 1992 survey, three out of four Muscovites said tliey were afraid to walk tlie streets at night. Such fears have built support for extremists such as ultra- nationalist Vladimir Zliirinovsky, who has ad- vocated shooting lawbreakers on sight.
Russia's new leaders, Handelman con-tends, "have failed to adopt any significant measures to curb organized crime." As the law stands now, police may arrest people tliey catch in a criminal act, but the "mastermind"...
KATHERI HOSKI
Selected and Introduced by Antlzony Heckt
I f I were still teaching graduate students in modern English and Ameri- can poetry and had assigned to me an especially gifted student, widely conversant with the whole rich canon from, say, Chaucer right up to the last minute, a student who was enthusiastic, willing to work, irnagi-
native, painstaking, and keenly sensitive to poetic nuance, I think I could do him or her no greater favor than to suggest a careful poem-by-poem comrnen- t...