Daniel Mark Epstein, in The New Criterion, 850 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019.
It has been 60 years since Hungarian magician Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, escaped from manacles inside a lead-weighted packing case-nailed shut and dropped into Manhattan's East River. But this and many of his other spectacular feats remain unexplained. And, notes Epstein, a poet, those feats were not exaggerated: Houdini's escapes were "more public than the proceedings of Congress, and...
Daniel Mark Epstein, in The New Criterion, 850 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019.
It has been 60 years since Hungarian magician Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, escaped from manacles inside a lead-weighted packing case-nailed shut and dropped into Manhattan's East River. But this and many of his other spectacular feats remain unexplained. And, notes Epstein, a poet, those feats were not exaggerated: Houdini's escapes were "more public than the proceedings of Congress, and...
public agencies and private institutions
"Playing God in Yellowstone."
Atlantic Monthly Press, 8 Arlington St., Boston, Mass. 02116. 446 pp. $24.95. Author: Alston Chase
-Yellowstone National Park, which Theo-
dore Roosevelt called "a natural breeding-
ground" for wild animals, faces a peculiar
crisis. Indeed, wildlife that Roosevelt saw
in Yellowstone in 1903 has vanished. Gone
are the wolf, coyote, and white-tailed deer,
and formerly flourishing beaver, bighorn
sheep, an...
Seymour Martin Lipset, in PS
- (Spring 1986), American Political Science Asso-ciation, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. 20036.
Ronald Reagan's popularity remains high. Early in 1986, surveys showed roughly two-thirds of the electorate supporting the president-the highest rating so far accorded to any 20th-century U.S. chief executive during the first quarter of his second term.
Such poll data seem to suggest that most Americans agree with the president's conservative agenda.
But...