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...named because it grew out of the engineering projects (in Italian, progetti) division of the former Societa Nazionale Meta-nodotti, another ENI subsidiary...
...Sotheby's (TIME, July 8), the illustrated gem fetched $252,000-a record high for any book ever sold to the public. A New York dealer bought it, and the 272-page manuscript seemed destined to remain forever separate from the other six books of the Meta morphoses, bequeathed by Diarist Samuel Pepys in 1703 to Cambridge's Magdalene College...
...once played the major league game. In the booth where Allen would have been sitting last week were Rizzuto and Joe Garagiola, who once caught for the Cardinals. Baseball players, brainwise, used to be presumed capable of little more skill in the arts of communication than a repertory of meta-laryngeal grunts. But Rizzuto and Garagiola are both articulate, witty, catlike on top of the play by play, and full of first-person-singular remarks about how it is done. Example...
...always been suspicious of the "metaphysics" of language and "meta-linguistic" problems such as how much language conditions thought and influence behaviour. Whatmough has instead worked with the actual substance of language as it appears in printed text or in a recording of someone speaking...
...high picture enraged many, as Dali's works usually do. But it is a major work by one of the ablest, strangest and least understood of living artists. Dali himself, with cat's eyes agleam and mustachios en garde, speaks of it as "a meta-pheesical dream." It took Dali six months to paint, and one syndicate reporter estimated that it also put $250,000 in his pocket. The estimate seems absurdly high, perhaps triple the actual price. Says Hartford: "If a quarter of a million dollars is intended as a compliment to Mr. Dali...