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...spirit, a man who had the courage to live life fully, and as a shining example of "adjustment"-for Casanova adapted himself so easily to his own desires. Yet there may be more truth in Ellis' exaggerated view than in the more conventional notion expressed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which complains that "the recital of his love affairs is monotonous and reveals a mind that was superficial and almost inhuman." Casanova was all too human, and his far-from-superficial mind recorded in the Memoirs an incomparable picture of 18th century life, ranging from jail to royal court, from...
...submit their meatiest questions, they have bombarded him with 2,500. Adler sorts the mail into "C" (useless), "B" (perhaps) and "A" (usable), has already accumulated a three-year supply of A's. These get published in his weekly column, and win a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Great Books (54 volumes, value $300), which Adler co-edited in the 1940s with Robert Hutchins. then the University of Chicago's chancellor...
...best, this training in submission and subtlety produced the kind of woman who has moved men of the West as well as of the East to rhapsody. Carried away, a writer in the Encyclopaedia Britannica described her: "She is entirely unselfish; exquisitely modest without being anything of a prude; abounding in intelligence which is never obscured by egotism; patient in the hour of suffering; strong in time of affliction; a faithful wife; a loving mother; a good daughter; and capable, as history shows, of heroism rivaling that of the stronger...
File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). A double-gaited educational hoss that runs like a'critter out of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Confidential. The subject is Edgar Allan Poe-not his poetry and prose, but his alcoholism and drug addiction. Professor-Author (The Histrionic Mr. Poe) N. Bryllion Fagin conducts the inquest...
Problems of Partnership. Much of bridge's complexity-and fascination-derives from the fact that it is a partnership game, requiring that North and South, East and West inform each other of their card holdings through bidding. The 1929 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica warned that contract bridge, then in its infancy, was "not a good game for the club cardroom" because "coordination between two partners is very necessary" and "not always easily obtained." Nearly all experts agree that bidding is the really important and difficult part of bridge. And even Goren's bitterest enemies in the cutthroat...