Word: enjoyable
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...response to the longer-term fact that too many people are missing out on a historic, century-long improvement in the quality of life. In many nations, life expectancy has grown dramatically in the past 100 years. More people vote in elections, express their views and enjoy economic freedom than ever before. Even with all the problems we face today, we are at a high point of human well-being. The world is getting a lot better...
...needn't be a scholar to enjoy this wondrous poem, which continually marvels us with its grand gestures: moments of divine intervention, political assassination plots, infernal visions and hellish battles with chimerical fiends. Recent pop culture has tackled the Buddha, from fantastic depictions (see Osamu Tezuka's eight-volume manga interpretation of his life) to the absurd (one thinks of a bronzed Keanu Reeves strutting as Siddhartha in Little Buddha). Yet you would be hard pressed to find anything that ranks close to the Buddhacarita, which still mesmerizes with its vividness and sheer audacity...
...Henri Loyrette. I visit a different section of the Louvre every time I visit Paris, and it will take me a lifetime to see it all - if I ever do. But I am now certain that my grandchildren, their children and all coming generations will also be able to enjoy the world's greatest museum. Issa Boullata, Montreal...
...Lace Reader By Brunonia Barry; out July 29 If you can sign off on the idea that the women of the Whitney family of Salem, Mass., can see the future in pieces of lace, you will enjoy this long but richly imagined saga of passion, suspense and magic. If not, we predict you will reread Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca instead...
Preserving that world was probably on Jeffs' mind when he decided in 2003 to move a large portion of his flock to the scrublands of West Texas. He perhaps imagined that on 1,300 acres of dusty ranchland behind barbed-wire fences and iron gates, his community would enjoy the fabled live-and-let-live world of the American frontier. After all, this was a wide-open land where good neighbors were neighborly but not nosy, where a man could turn a page and start anew with few questions raised about his past. "They thought they were safe behind those...