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...member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1928 to 1973, Schapiro has also served as visiting professor at several universities, including. Oxford and the University of London. In 1966 and 1967, he gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, discussing the French Romanesque style...
Like its predecessors, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (Norton; $15.50) is a banquet of anecdotes, insights and revelations on natural history. The 30 essays range from a humorous discourse on the shrinking size of the Hershey bar to the woeful tale of male anglerfish that attach themselves for life to a female of the species and become little more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies...
...most notorious confusion of all surrounded a Core course called Literature and Arts B-16, "Abstraction in Modern Art." Like a horde of wildcatters racing to the site of a gusher, some 600 students (roughly a tenth of the undergraduate population) descended upon the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall, hoping for a spot in the survey course...
...Vegas, gambling during the summer high season produced $446.5 million in revenues; this was 24% more than in the previous summer and only slightly less than the $455 million raked in by Vegas casinos during that period. Moreover, the gap has continued to narrow this autumn. Says Steven Norton, executive vice president for Resorts International, which operates the oldest, largest and most successful casino in the city: "By 1984, gambling revenues in New Jersey will surpass those in Las Vegas." During October, he notes, Atlantic City's revenues jumped a startling 39% over those of the previous year...