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Exotic excursions into odd corners of cookery have some license to charm rather than instruct. But a working cookbook should be a textbook. It requires patient research, decent expository prose, and-on the publisher's part-painstaking work on editing and layout. Most cookbooks seem to aim solely for brevity. Beat the eggs with the sugar simply will not do unless it is followed by how long to beat and what the result should look or act like. No cookbook user is unfamiliar with that terse and truly enigmatic staple of mousse and souffle recipes: Fold in egg whites...
...anti-Greenwich Village article for a now defunct college-audience magazine called Ivy. William F. Buckley Jr., who had a piece in the same issue, detected conservative views in Leonard's writing. Buckley phoned, and hired him as an editorial apprentice on National Review magazine. Leonard did layout, makeup, a few book reviews. After Buckley sent him to post-revolutionary Cuba, Leonard found his political viewpoint solidifying. "I was always vaguely liberal," he says, "but Buckley taught me to develop my ideas logically. I discovered I was growing more radical, and that made it impossible for me to stay...
...more expensive touch-tone trim-line phones were originally the only phones to be permitted in Currier House. They were chosen by interior designers and the Radcliffe Administration as the best style for the Currier layout...
Ralph B. Gates, director of Buildings and Grounds, said that Radcliffe chose the phones "because they fit in best with the furnishing layout...
Bold Future. The Architecture and Art Building on the University of Illinois' stunning Circle Campus in Chicago also stumbled, in effect, over its untied shoelaces. Although Walter Netsch, a brilliant partner at Skidmore. Owings & Merrill, intended to develop an especially efficient organizational layout, he ended up with a devilishly intricate maze. In certain parts of the building, going to the bathroom entails a walk up one flight of stairs and down another...