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...thought that primary schools could do a better job of teaching children to reason. "In the beginning it was hard, because the children were very excited," recalls Morton Street Teacher Gerry Dawson. "By the end of the course, they were going to the library and taking volumes of the encyclopedia home...
...quote the Encyclopedia Britannica on Indian Summer: "The haziness of the air, the musty odor and glorious mordant coloring of the leaves, the smell of smoke from rampant fires in the dry woods and the relaxing physiological effect of the warmth following the previous cold snap all contribute to the distinctive and romantic stereotype of Indian Summer that has been cherished by generations of Americans." This is offensive? This is a slur on the Indian people? This shows "sneakiness...
...Hunter and a staff of his graduate students from Princeton and backed by an enthusiastic Newport resident named William Crimmins. Fifty-four large works by 40 artists have been installed on the island's shores, in its shopping center and around the gardens of its mansions: an encyclopedia of large-scale sculpture from the U.S. and Europe. "Monumenta" runs through Oct. 13, providing an unexpected cultural foil to the America's Cup races...
Marshall Field V, 33, was only two years out of Harvard when his father died and left him heir to Field Enterprises, Inc., one of the nation's largest publishers (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News, World Book Encyclopedia). He spent the next five years training to fill his father's shoes-and earning a considerable reputation as a bon vivant. A moderate with occasionally liberal political views, Field has grown into a tough...
Dark of the Moon is by two nice gentlemen named Howard Richardson and William Berney. It takes place in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Its story concerns a witch boy who turns human to marry a girl named Barbara Allen. At the end, as the McGraw Encyclopedia of World Drama eloquently puts it, "once again a witch, John looks without recognition at the body of the girl he once loved." Well, the course of true love never did run smooth. This weekend and next in the Leverett Old Library...