Word: detours
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Besides the actual digging, Webster used to detour traffic from North St. when the sewer cuts across the road. Only one of the intramural football fields on Webster will be available next fall...
...news budget. But some of the out-of-the-way stories in the issue are not to be missed. Just as France's famed gourmet Guide Michelin (see THE WORLD) confers one, two or three stars on France's best restaurants and decrees which are "worth a detour,'' our own chefs have a few specialties de la maison to commend...
Once these appetizers have been sampled, either on a detour or in their proper sequence, the rest of the news may be approached in a confident frame of mind. It has never been a TIME rule that the magazine must be read from front to back, though most people do. Those who skip ahead to their favorite section-whether it be People, Medicine or Art-or take a preliminary skim of the magazine, just looking at the pictures and reading what catches their eye, have our affection too. We have a first page but not a Front Page...
Children and adults who are up to 256 pages will find sophisticated whimsy in The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (Epstein & Carroll; $3.95), which leads a vagrant young Ulysses on an unaccountable world detour to the Island of Conclusions. Jules Pfeiffer's illustrations fall between Thurber and Searle, but still enhance the best juvenile buy of the season...
...conniving in its own destruction, at the command of the will, by a series of graduated stages." Koestler erroneously thinks that the "Christian ascetic mortifies his body to hasten its return to dust."* This, he holds, at least has the merit of directness over the yogi's "prodigious detour. He must build up his body into a superefficient, super-sentient instrument of self-annihilation...