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...when A Boy Named Charlie Brown sticks to a boy named Charlie Brown, it becomes a good deed in a naughty world, bright, nonviolent and equipped with an animated moral, the way Snoopy is equipped with a tail. Charlie loses the National Spelling Bee and slinks back to town, looking for all the world like an extinguished light bulb. And behold!-life goes on. In spite of failure and humiliation, observes the prescient Linus, "the world didn't come to an end." It is a message that should not be missed by sensitive children. Neither should the movie...
...prize-givings. At one dinner party, Earl Mountbatten of Burma actually calculated that Coward had written 27 plays and 281 songs, and Sir Laurence Olivier called him "utterly unspoiled." The Coward eyebrows uncocked a bit, the eyes glanced sideways, and the words hummed forth on the wings of a bee: "That's what you think." He rose to reply to the tributes at a midnight gala in his honor: "I am awfully overcome at this moment and, as you see, restraining it with splendid fortitude...
Beeton's Book of Household Management -First Facsimile Edition, by Isabella Bee-ton. 1,112 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $12.95. An engrossing compendium of cookery, psychology, etiquette, management, legal, medical, moral and drainage information, which first appeared in England in 1861 and is still history's bestselling cookbook. "Men are now so well served out of doors-at their clubs, well-ordered taverns and dining-houses," the author points out, "that in order to compete ..." Any bride can finish the sentence. Mrs. Beeton, however, makes the role of bride only slightly less awesome than handling flight patterns...
...male chefs have greater responsibility through "facts." But she got her facts wrong. She claimed tat for North House the ratio of chefs to students is 1:112 (two cooks and two chefs for 450 students), East and Sonth Houses 1:62 (four cooks for 250 students). We have bee working in the kitchens all term, and know that in North Housse a staff of four serves 100 to 500 people (official kitchen count-400 resident diners); in South House a staff of two serves 300-500 orienlal count-325). Thus the women cooks in fact have greater responsibility than...
...Bee in Clover. To support this conclusion, she darts around history hunting for examples like a bee in a clover field. Ancient Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, Tokyo in 1900, medieval Antwerp are all plundered for signs of stagnation or growth. But her key comparison is drawn from 19th century England. In the 1840s, says Jane Jacobs, Manchester looked like a model of progress and modernity. It had become a rich, gigantic industrial machine for cranking out textiles. By contrast, Birmingham then seemed outmoded. It was "a muddle of oddments," where myriad small firms busily made saddles, harnesses, tools...