Word: becks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emily Morison Beck, Editor Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Boston
...into three parts: classic, nouvelle and provincial. Many of the top chefs who miraculously find time to write these books are, hélas, unable to spread the flavors of their tables across the printed page. Louisette Bertholle provides a salivating exception. A collaborator with Julia Child and Simone Beck in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Bertholle has written a comprehensive, down-to-earth guide to French family cooking that is both witty and percipient. Her French Cuisine for All (Doubleday; $19.95), meticulously edited for the American cook, covers the Gallic spectrum from country soups and dandelion salad...
...Bartlett's editor, Emily Morison Beck, daughter of Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, has reverted some what to Bartlett's original concept of familiarity, and what is familiar today is pop culture. So step aside Shakespeare - a few inches, anyway - to make some room for Bob Dylan ("The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"), Janis Joplin ("Down on me, down on me/ Looks like everybody in this whole round world/ Is down on me"), Timothy Leary ("Turn on, tune in, drop out"), Wladziu Valentino Liberace ("I cried all the way to the bank"), Yogi Berra...
...think of Bartlett's as literary archaeology," says Beck, ";in which familiar and noteworthy quotations reveal . . . the nature of the age and the people who created them." If so, the 15th edition, with its chorus of sayings by Neil Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, R.D. Laing, Mick Jagger and the rest of the tribe, reminds one of Victor Hugo's platitude about an idea whose time has come, a quotation that Beck calmly assures us Hugo never said. Bartlett would have been proud...
...that recycle and cleanse surface water; there is no sunlight, for example, to evaporate it and thereby remove salts and other minerals and chemicals. Nor can ground water be counted upon to clean itself as it moves through the earth, for it scarcely "flows" at all. Says Eckardt C. Beck, the EPA's assistant administrator for water and waste management: "Ground water can take a human lifetime just to traverse a mile. Once it becomes polluted, the contamination can last for decades...