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...merest fragment of the vanished whole it attempts to describe. No people in the history of Europe turned on their own traditional art with a more consuming fury than the English did on their medieval heritage. The destruction began in a small way with the random acts of zealots like the Lollards. They were enraged by the apparent contradiction between the Second Commandment ("Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image") and the "idolatrous" cult of statues of the Holy Family and the saints set up in English churches, jeweled and gilt and encrusted with innumerable votive offerings...
...England boasts the nation's second richest regional kitchen. The L.L. Bean Book of New New England Cookery, by Judith and Evan Jones (Random House; 669 pages; $22.50), informs us that it continues to expand. Judging by some of the newer dishes, that is not always for the better. This huge, handsome compendium, written for the Maine-based mail-order outfitter, is at its best with traditional specialties: rhubarb cakes and cobblers; codfish in chowders, cakes and Portuguese stews; and all the lobster, salmon and blueberry treats so rarely found elsewhere in the country. But the italicized...
...hundred and eleven years later, Harvard should worry less about its own ease and make undergraduate education more of a priority. As it now stands, both the University and its students fool themselves into thinking that the education here is first-rate. But it actually is so only in random cases. The quality of education must be based on something more substantial than the luck of the draw. This is the second installment of a two-part series on graduate student teaching at Harvard. Part one appeared yesterday...
Like the skateboard and Hula-Hoop, California's fads inevitably migrate eastward. The latest, freeway shootings, appears to have faded on the West Coast but is all the rage in southern Illinois and is spreading to eastern Missouri. A recent rash of seemingly random events has left one person dead and one wounded. Outside Collinsville, Ill., shotgun fire struck a man in the chest and arm as he drove down Interstate 55. Fifteen minutes later and ten miles away, another driver was shot in the head and killed. Across the state line in St. Louis County, Mo., last week...
...faces of these old horse soldiers were lined, and stories were written on the lines. Traces were visible of more than a random share of scars and broken noses and of skin reddened by weather and bourbon. Their bodies had stiffened, but hands, forearms and shoulders remembered easy strength. They had aged, but that surely was not all they had done...