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...mention the luminarias, of which we are very proud here in the Southwest. They are festive lights made, as you say, by sand-filled paper bags containing lighted candles. The tradition is that the luminarias guide the Christ Child to every home. The custom is Spanish, and it started when Spain had dominion over our Southwest. The use of luminarias at Christmastime is a custom followed all along the Rio Grande River, from Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, and also in Texas. Though it is not too important, I think that your readers...
Moth Bags for Mossbacks. To keep the press happy, Romagna has performed prodigies of rapid transcription. Romagna's wooden attache case, custom-built by the White House carpentry shop, is a portable desk, but in a pinch, Romagna has been known to recruit the nearest back for the same purpose. Recording presidential talks in the White House rose garden -a favorite informal speaking site-is Romagna's pet chore: "Provided the speech is not too long, I can take it down, run the 50 yards to my office and transcribe it. dash into the mimeo room and have...
...congratulated on your cover story on Christmas shopping (Dec. 15) on almost all counts. The nice balance between humor and sobriety, urbanity and simplicity, contemporary commercialism and ancient religious custom produced one of the most inclusive commentaries ever offered by TIME...
Loving Patina. Since the making and collecting of statuettes was the custom in ancient Rome, it was inevitable that the men of the Renaissance should revive it. They read of superb little sculptures like the Hercules that the poet Statius insisted Hannibal had admired and that Sulla used for adorning his banquet table. Fifteenth century connoisseurs not only collected ancient statuettes but also began commissioning contemporary ones...
...minority: "The exhibitionist is in the same class as all those other people labeled with the final 'ist,' the sadist, the masochist, the fetichist. They are in essence the same as ourselves, who call ourselves healthy; the sole difference is that we allow our desire to play only where custom permits, while the 'ist' is out of date...