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This year, Berry says, top-ranked chefs from area hotels and restaurants will visit Harvard dining halls to prepare special dinners and to instruct the HDS staff on novel cooking techniques...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: LET THERE BE FOOD | 2/15/1992 | See Source »

TELLING TALES, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. In the 19th century, narrative paintings were used to please and instruct, yet the genre fell into ill favor with the advent of the moderns. Fifty paintings and sculptures of that neglected style are on display, once again revealing the inspiration artists found in the Bible, history and literature. Through April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 11, 1991 | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more Than an order of words, the conscious occupation Of the parying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. --T.S. Eliot "Little Gidding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gomes: Prayer at Harvard Is a 'Valid Expression' | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...Usually when they are fairly organized, parties can instruct their voters how to [number their ballots]," Shepsle says. "What politicians do is work thorough established community organizations--families, religious, fraternal groups and encourage supporters in those organizations to coordinate their votes...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: Seeking #1: Winning Under Proportional Representation | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Most how-to books instruct readers in ways to refinish furniture, profit from a recession, communicate with one's in-laws or cook some exotic ethnic casserole. But one of the hottest tomes of the moment -- it has sold out its first printing of 41,000 copies and will top next week's best-seller list of how-to and advice volumes in the New York Times -- explains, step by step, how to end a human life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do-It-Yourself Death Lessons | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

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