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...their income to the Lord, Copeland asks himself rhetorically, "Well, Brother Copeland, are you tithing to get?" His answer: "Yes, yes, yes! A thousand times yes! I want to get healed, I want to get well, I want to get money, I want to get prosperous!" Other advocates include Frederick Price, 54, the black pastor of a huge Los Angeles church, and Robert Tilton, 39, of the Dallas-based Success-N-Life cable network...
...course, we Americans knew that, felt it in our marrow as we marched raucously across a continent. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner explained it to us in 1893, when he wrote of the closing of our Western frontier. "What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States...
...knee breeches on busily pedaling half-mannequins. On the top floor, some 18th century costumes move in almost antic procession on mannequins molded like silhouettes in some three-dimensional shadow play. Below, on the 19th century floor, a woman dresses for the opera in a ravishing gown by Charles Frederick Worth; across the gallery, an array of simple cottons and linens arranged as if for a Sunday outing at a park creates an effortless paradigm of everyday elegance...
Delays and broken promises have bedeviled the computer business since its birth some 35 years ago. The program that runs the IBM System/360 mainframe computer, for example, arrived six months later than first promised. Frederick Brooks, who managed the project in the mid-'60s, anatomized the problem in a book called The Mythical Man-Month and concluded that it is in the nature of , software to require more time than is scheduled...
Milbank has produced lucid, well-researched essays on 61 designers from Charles Frederick Worth, who is considered the first professional couturier, as distinct from a private dressmaker, to Armani and Issey Miyake, the latest clothing innovators. The author, who is 30, began her work four years ago when she headed the costume department at Sotheby's auction house and realized that there was no single useful reference work. Couture certainly is that, but it is also highly entertaining social history. Milbank is gifted at writing appreciations, often the hardest kind of criticism to do convincingly. But there is something...