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Temple Fielding has been called "a modern Baedeker." The description fits only in the sense that Karl Baedeker dominated the guidebook field during the mid-1800s, just as Fielding does today. For kings and governments may err,/ But never Mr. Baedeker, wrote Poet A. P. Herbert. Stolid and scholarly, an indefatigable wanderer and meticulous researcher, Baedeker was the first guidebook writer to rate hotels and restaurants with a star system (similar to that employed by France's Michelin guides today); he was also a culture demon who directed his readers to every landmark and royal pigeon roost...
Choreography and costumes never err on the side of understatement, but while it is easy to become annoyed with the Pudding's pretensions to professionalism, you have to concede that they put on a pretty professional show. A wonderful parody of Lido lavishness almost redeems the anticlimatic kickline number, and when the formulaic jokes become tedious, you can pass the time between songs looking at some very imaginatively designed shoes and purses...
...texts do not prove or imply infallibility. What they say is only that Christ wanted the Apostles to teach his gospel, and that they had certain knowledge of what to teach. They had such unforgettable memories of all the main events and teaching of Jesus that they could not err in communicating to their audiences. Their infallibility was not of the theological but of the natural kind-which is another name for unshakably certain knowledge...
...your story on the two recent balls in Portugal and Soraya's comment on them, I would like to transmit to you the feeling-as a reader and subscriber-that TIME can err as an unusual consequence of work, but should apologize whenever necessary for the errors, especially if personal images are involved. It is a fact that Soraya did not attend any of the parties, and I'm afraid TIME can't be sure of her having made the referred-to statement. So, TIME should loyally apologize, and not just "note the demurrer...
...newsmen say no, yet their generally restrained coverage of the "disturbances" following the King assassination, compared with the full-blast coverage of last summer's riots, proves that television need not err on the side of sensationalism. Though the President's riot commission report tends to discount TV's role as an inciter it guardedly adds that "the question is far-reaching and a sure answer is beyond the range of presently available scientific techniques...