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...Christopher Andrewes has spent most of his virologist's life studying the ailment, and in a new book just published in London, The Common Cold (Weidenfeld and Nicolson; 25 s.), Andrewes sums up what is known about the disease. He concludes that even the name is dubious. "That it is common admits of no dispute. But why cold? Is it because we feel chilly when we have a cold or because chilling brings it on (or is supposed to do so) or because the infection is commoner during the cold time of the year...
...celebrator of human figures in the Brueghel tradition. Once the heavyweight boxing champion of Dartmouth ('21), where he "slept through" an art appreciation course, Sample went on to paint prizefighters, New England landscapes and memorable watercolors of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Marjorie Hope Nicolson, chair man of Columbia University's English department, had an equal humanity. Refreshingly unfeminist, Miss Nicolson was longtime dean of Smith College, and a formidable Yale-and-Michigan-educated scholar who endlessly illustrated how science inspired 17th and 18th century poetry and philosophy. Her honors were staggering. She was the first...
...with unsurpassed skill is to compress and illuminate the conditions, conflicts and characters of nations that he has covered for more years than any other U.S. newsman left on the beat. Pundits may fault his tightly packed book as superficial. Most other readers will probably agree with Critic Harold Nicolson's verdict on the first Inside: "It's only superficial on the surface...
...Reason, by Harold Nicolson. Catherine the Great, Jonathan Swift, John Wesley and a score of other 18th century movers and shapers are laved in the warm glow of idiosyncrasy rather than the cold light of 100% accuracy. The author writes in the witty and amusing fashion of a male Nancy Mitford...
What was the age's impact? It was too much of a minority movement of intellectuals to stir such profound upheavals as the French Revolution, and to the limited extent that Nicolson implies such an impact, he exaggerates or falls into error...