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Your article about the new book Crime and Human Nature included references to Italian Physician Cesare Lombroso [BEHAVIOR, Oct. 21]. This reminded me of a course in criminal psychology that I took in 1922, for which Lombroso's work L'Homme Criminel was a textbook. One day the professor read to us from the book certain characteristics by which born criminals could be identified, some of which were "profusion of hair on the head, sparsity of hair on the face, and lean jaws constantly in motion," whereupon one of the students called out, "You have just described my wife!" Frank...
...inch letters placed 5 or 6 inches above the waist. Jacket lapels should be 3½ inches wide, and there should be half an inch of shirt collar showing, along with the same amount of cuff at the sleeve. Do not buy clothes made of anything but natural fabrics. Italian shoes are "totally inappropriate to the American style of dress...
...more fresh and exciting are the books dedicated to traditional and foreign foods. Today's regional cookbooks are narrower in focus than those of ten or 15 years ago. Americans used to be interested in knowing everything about a foreign cuisine at once: the food of France, or Italian cooking for all occasions. No longer. Authors must now come in closer on highly specialized dishes or on more obscure corners of the world. Herewith a small but significant shelf...
...Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David (Viking; $18.95) is a collection of essays with some recipes. The London-based food writer has gathered 35 years of provocative thoughts about French, Italian and other Mediterranean cooking, along with perceptive, literate pieces on English cuisine, all of which have appeared in assorted publications. To those who suggest that food critics spend too much time carping, David answers, "Does a theatre critic offer his readers indiscriminate praise of every play . . . he has seen during the week . . .? To be attacked for declining to say, whether in private or in public, that...
...private, the Colombian government showed far more concern about the situation. In the second half of October it invited a group of Italian volcanologists to visit Colombia. Their task: to give an opinion on the danger posed by Nevado del Ruiz. The team's conclusions were alarming. Said Franco Barberi, a professor of volcanology at the University of Pisa: "The volcano has certainly not finished its activity. Actually, the worst may be yet to come." On Oct. 22, the Italians submitted a report to the Colombian government warning that an "extremely dangerous" eruption could be expected at any time. They...