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...good book badly printed is infinitely more valuable than a bad book beautifully printed." Fortunately the maxim is not mocked here. The text, by several authorities, is for the general reader who wants to learn. Title notwithstanding, less space is devoted to the bound book than to its precursor the manuscript, whose history is far longer and richer. From Mesopotamia to William Morris, from the lacquered bindings of Persia to the bejeweled Gospels of the Dark Ages, the book manages to convey the serenity of a library and an unostentatious reverence for writing...
...with neighbors like William James, the Busch Riesinger Museum, the Church of New Jerusalem. Memorial Hall and Burr Lecture Hall. But it at least blocks the view of William James. Also the Busch-Reisinger museum regains some of its distinctiveness by being removed from its confrontation with Harvard's precursor to the World Trade Center...
Shortly before 11 p.m., Democratic National chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien ruled in favor of a role call on a challenge to the South Caronlina delegation which sought to seat two additional women. It is generally agreed here that the outcome of that rold call will be a precursor of Senator George McGovern's relative strength in the crucial California challenge...
...hunt or a machine hunt? Is Harry Benson only the tragic victim of scientific arrogance or, as he says shortly after the operation, "a fallen man," precursor of a generation that may have no memory of what it was to have been human? Crichton does not indulge in such speculation. He is a scrupulous genre writer who is content to dress up old tales with new gadgetry. Andromeda Strain, for example, was in some sense a rewrite of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. The Terminal Man is an update of Frankenstein. Can Dracula, or Wolfman in sheep...
...TIME's attempt to label Jimmy Carter the precursor of a fresh wave of liberalism in the South overlooks the fact that in winning the Democratic nomination, Carter defeated Carl Sanders, the most progressive Governor in Georgia history...