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Newfangled Ideas. Chiang Ching and her colleagues, this group of Sinologists noted, had been behind recent attacks on Confucius, which, as everyone in China seemed to know, was really their way of denouncing the pragmatists led by Premier Chou Enlai. The ball is now back in Chiang Ching's...
White was to have received the James B. Herrick award, named for the Chicago physician (1861-1954) who in 1912 first accurately described a coronary-artery shutdown in a living patient and in effect added the term coronary thrombosis to the language. Previously, doctors had assumed that no one could...
-the Manhattan advertising dodge and set up as a painter. Since Ned is the sort of painter who celebrates sunsets, covered bridges and barns, the Constantines decide to move to the source of supply. They chance on the tiny, lost village of Cornwall Coombe, a New England hamlet that, except...
Indeed she is-to a degree almost unheard of nowadays. Stevens, 65, descended from a long line of schooner fishermen, designed Kathi Anne II himself, although he had no training in naval architecture and never went beyond ninth grade. From groves on his own farm he cut white pine for...
Taylor's version may disturb some ears, but its thought-for-thought rendition is not very likely to distress believers with any newfangled doctrinal notions. "The theological lodestar in this book," says Taylor in an anonymous preface to The Living Bible, "has been a rigid evangelical position." Mysteriously, halfway...