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...readers who have and will never be able to confirm Silver's lyrical description in the ravioli in the Freshman Union. Rather than letting Harvard overwhelm her story, Silver keeps her view affectionately mocking, her landscape tiny. Jane Austen once described her own novels as etchings on a square inch of ivory, rather than canvases to dominate a room. That strategy, it seems, could only help the vast majority of Harvard novelists...
...BIOGRAPHY of E.B. White, author Scott Elledge reports a remark about White which the poet Adrienne Rich made in a letter to Katharine Angell. White's late wife. Rich said "she thought, without detracting an inch from H.D.T., that it must be a good deal more difficult to be E.B. White in the 20th century than Henry Thoreau in the 19th ... How's this? Is White a troubled or oppressed American? Famous as a stylist, essayist, and author of children's books. White has long been identified with the The New Yorker. America's most prestigious and profitable magazine...
...archivists work back over the compaign, inch by inch, day by day, trying to find the decisive moment. Was it Super Tuesday, March 13, when Mondale swept most of the primaries and caucuses? Was it Feb. 28 in New Hampshire or Feb. 20 in Iowa, when Mondale gave his first public displays of clout? Hold on, the researchers say, look back further. In January 1983, Iowa's popular Democratic Congressman, Tom Harkin, endorsed Mondale, sending a strong signal to the party faithful. But wait. The logbook shows that Mondale journeyed to Iowa in February 1982 in tow of Congressman...
...knew we could never get it down to that," says Major Ronald L. Peck, Vandenberg's chief of public affairs. "So they went back to the drawing boards and came up with the Shuttle Assembly Building. We call it our $40 million one-sixteenth of an inch...
Most obvious, the Macintosh has a unusually small screen size. A nine-inch diagonal, it presents a five-by-seven viewing image...