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...favorite ways to procrastinate in high school was to flip through Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. I would write down my favorite quotes and feel good about all the time I was saving by only reading the best lines of the best works of literature...
...edition in my house, however, only went up to the year 1965. So, upon going to Harvard, where I figured it would be even more useful to have a superficial knowledge of cultural history, I decided to get a new, updated Bartlett's: the "Fifteenth and 125th Anniversary Edition...
...first disappointment was not seeing anything from Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd's lyricist wasn't even listed in the index of authors. What upset me further was that an anonymous former Bartlett's editor described the quotations as "what looks to be most memorable of man's joy, suspicion, and dismay...
Even worse than the recent "authors" selected were the quotations themselves. Certainly, John Lennon and Paul McCartney deserve to be in Bartlett's, but a little more thought should have been given to the utility of the quotes listed. When is anyone going to say, "As Lennon and McCartney once sang, I'll tell you something I think you'll understand/Then I'll say that something/I want to hold your hand...
...first alarm bell rang in February, when Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti summoned Rose to New York City for a private conversation on a secret subject. Reporters who knew Rose guessed gambling. Last week Ueberroth acknowledged that his office was conducting an ongoing investigation into "serious allegations" after Ron Peters and Alan Statman, a saloon-keeping bookie and his lawyer, claimed they had been cooperating with the commissioner's office. They offered to expand on their testimony for a fee to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both publications demurred. But the story began...