Richard A. Kenchington, in Environmental Conserva- tion (Spring 1978), Elsevier Sequoia, S.A.,
P.O. Box 851, 1001 Lausanne 1, Switzer- land.
Inadequate research, poor sampling techniques, and the eagerness of the news media for a sensational story combined to create the great crown-of-thorns starfish "menace" of the late 1960s and early '70s.
So says Australian marine biologist Kenchington, who suggests that the advent of scuba-diving technology led to greatly increased explora- tion...
human tam- pering with the environment. Subsequent surveys, which were inade- quately financed and hampered the extent and remoteness of the rich coral cover, did little to discourage speculation by the news media and environmentalists that the Great Barrier Reef would eventually collapse, exposing the entire Queensland coast to the erosive force of the Pacific Ocean.
In the absence of effective means of dealing with the menace (hand collecting and chemical treatment proved either impractical or...
the U.S. fleet to 0.26 per ton in 1977. This death toll is low enough to permit porpoise populations to increase, and, while the matter may continue to be debated in emo- tional terms, the authors cautiously conclude that porpoise deaths are "perhaps no longer a major ecological problem."
"The Real Meaning of the Energy Crunch" bv Daniel Yerein, in The New
Conservation York ~irnes~a~azine
(~une.4, 1978), 229
W. 43rd St., New York, N.Y. 10036.
A serious real energy crisi...
Steve Law- son, in Horizon (June 1978), 381 West Center Court, Marion, Ohio 43302.
A "Third Wave" of audacious and innovative British playwrights is beginning to make its mark on the English theater. These writers- Stephen Poliakoff, Barrie Keefe, Snoo Wilson, Steve Gooch-were spawned in small, makeshift theaters that have sprung up in Edin- burgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, and Liverpool as well as in London.
"Young, committed, and astonishingly prolific," the Third Wave dramatists,...
Steve Law- son, in Horizon (June 1978), 381 West Center Court, Marion, Ohio 43302.
A "Third Wave" of audacious and innovative British playwrights is beginning to make its mark on the English theater. These writers- Stephen Poliakoff, Barrie Keefe, Snoo Wilson, Steve Gooch-were spawned in small, makeshift theaters that have sprung up in Edin- burgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, and Liverpool as well as in London.
"Young, committed, and astonishingly prolific," the Third Wave dramatists,...
spraying acid on stretched nylon, Metzger created art that destroyed itself in the very act of creation. In using violence creatively without producing a commodity for the mar-ketplace, Walker argues, Metzger attained the elusive unity of art and politics that earlier anarchists had sought.
"Centrality Without Philosophy: The Crisis In The Arts" Joseph Wesley Zeigler, in New York Affairs (vol. 4, no. 4, 1978). New York University, Graduate School of Public ~dministration, 4 Wash-ington...
William Haley, in The American Scholar (Summer 1978), 1811 Q St. N.W., Wash- ington, D.C.20009.
England has fallen from its imperial heights as rapidly as any nation in history. Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor Party government currently faces grave labor agitation and economic woes, friction with its European Common Market partners, and pressure to give autonomy to Scotland and Wales.
But, although Britain seems to be teetering on the brink of ruin, it will survive, says Haley, former director-general...
Correlli Bar- nett, in TheIllustrated London News (May or Genius? 1978). British Publications Inc.. 11-03
46th Ave., Long Island City, N.Y. 11 101. Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, was a master of modern pub- lic relations who brilliantly portrayed himself as a national hero and military genius. In reality, argues Barnett, author of the new biography Bonaparte, Napoleon "was not a heroic genius or a master of war at all, but an overconfident gambler pursuing a fundamentally unsound sys-...
Correlli Bar- nett, in TheIllustrated London News (May or Genius? 1978). British Publications Inc.. 11-03
46th Ave., Long Island City, N.Y. 11 101. Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, was a master of modern pub- lic relations who brilliantly portrayed himself as a national hero and military genius. In reality, argues Barnett, author of the new biography Bonaparte, Napoleon "was not a heroic genius or a master of war at all, but an overconfident gambler pursuing a fundamentally unsound sys-...
producing an end to detente and a return to the Cold War. Detente, contends Cook, permits the Russians to pursue other world ventures without risk and encourages the West- em trade and credits essential to the economic well-being of Eastern Europe.
Since the election defeat, Cook writes, "Marchais has dropped all the cosmetics and returned to his true Stalinist colors-to thi irrita- tion and bitterness of comrades who really believed in Eurocommu- nism. . . ." The French Communist Party...