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...total experience of human being is reconstituted in radiance. At one level, La Commedia is a spiritual autobiography; at another, a parable of the progress of the soul; at a third, one of the noblest love stories ever told. Incidentally it is a manual of mysticism and an encyclopedia of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Scholastic learning. Fundamentally it is both a fearful reprise of Apocalypse and the gospel of a rising religion of individuality that still moves and shakes the Western world. And spiritually, because it so profoundly agitates the great continuing questions of man's essence and existence...
...numerous articles in medical journals. The services available are through and all-inclusive, and now amount to a pioneering program in prepaid medical care (administered through the Blue Cross-Blue Shield system). Last year over 20 members of the staff collaborated in the production of a sort of encyclopedia to college health affairs, College Health Administration, which does everything from reproducing the forms Harvard requires freshmen to fill out to explaining the legal aspects of university medicine, does everything from reproducing the forms Harvard requires freshmen to fill out to explaining the legal aspects of university medicine...
...judges originally assigned to the case removed for prejudice-the judge had led the drive to get Mihajlov fired from his university post. When signing the court register, Mihajlov neatly added after his name, "from the town of Zadar, which in the last issue of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia is called 'an American military base on the Mediterranean...
Botanist Norman Taylor, editor of the excellent Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, feels that plant advertising should specifically note which areas of the country are suitable for each species of plant or tree. Most reputable catalogues nowadays do in fact list preferred zones and soil conditions. But in general, Taylor points out, "people have been given the impression that spruce and hemlock and firs will thrive in the prairie regions west of the Mississippi. And you should be very careful about what rhododendrons you buy. The beautiful Rhododendron Maximum, for example, does well in New England and New York...
...long tenure there, General Manager Gershman infected bureau hands with his own conviction that the only good reporter is one who double-times to every story and double-checks every source. But even before his time, C.N.B. had made impressive contributions, both apocryphal and real, to the encyclopedia of journalistic lore. In 1903, when a smoke-blackened man crawled out of a manhole before the eyes of a C.N.B. legman named Walter Howey (later editor of Chicago's Herald and Examiner), Howey commandeered a phone in a nearby bookie joint and short-circuited, so the story goes, every other...