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"Perspectives is a wide-ranging collection of some of Hugh Downs's most interesting, informative, and entertaining essays, adapted from the ten-minute broadcasts that have become his hallmark. His topics include everything from ancient myth to space exploration, and include such subjects as the intangible value of gold, the meaning of true happiness, the trials of lefties in a right-handed world, and the role of the Iroquois Confederacy in shaping American political thought."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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His 1995 book “Perspectives” gives some idea of the breadth of his interests. The book is a collection of short essays first presented on the ABC radio show “Perspective.” Not until the acknowledgements at the end of the book does he acknowledge that many of these essays were co-written by his son, H.R. Downs.
Some of these essays are now dated. Others just aren't very interesting, more a recitation of related facts than the expression of an original idea. Yet most of them make amazing, entertaining and informative reading.
He tells of visiting the South Pole and of, in his words, "literally going around the world in twenty-four steps." In another essay he has us imagine the entire solar system as being the size of your thumbnail. In that case, the Milky Way would be the size of the state of Alaska. He writes that clothing is "a kind of advertising," and he says that trousers were invented in Scotland because those kilts can get a bit drafty in the winter. At first men just put a wool sleeve called a trowse on each leg. When eventually sewed together, they became trousers.
He writes about motorcycles (who knew Hugh Downs rode Harleys?), gambling, horses, phobias, left-handedness, dogs, coins, tipping, the free press and other subjects both serious and whimsical. Sometimes he gets personal, as when he tells about appearing on television before he had ever had the chance to watch television.
It was an endlessly fascinating world from Hugh Downs's perspective. A quarter century later his “Perspectives” remains worthwhile reading. ( )