Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.

Pleonexia, or greed, the wishing and trying for the bigger share, we know under the name of covetousness.

And they're going to get the news--the true news--quickly and simply and entertainingly. And no special interests will be allowed to interfere with the truth of that news.

At forty, after a bad illness, the Secretary of the Bank entangles himself with a girl - decidedly - of thirty-seven, half courted, half parried by him in letters of the most glucose baby talk. She is an elfette, an elfin art-adorer, who had been a little girl