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...been a successful bureaucrat, a farmer's son who is famous as an exponent of esthetic theory, a spokesman for the avant-garde who can nevertheless write in praise of an idyllic past. The typical Englishman who is all these things is Sir Herbert Read, 69, a highly singular man who needs not one but four autobiographies to do justice to his talent for plural living...
...British actresses. Her range of roles in her 33 films and 107 plays has been enormous-from Madame Arcati, the happy medium in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, to Oscar Wilde's Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest. Her face and manner are unmistakably singular. She is the ultimate symbol of resourceful, tweedily eccentric British womanhood, of the old gals who go stamping across the heath in the wild rain, looking for stuffed shirts to poke with their umbrellas...
...party is over, but melodies linger on. From our readers, we have been receiving comments on our 40th anniversary cover story of Lincoln. Lamont M. Jensen of Salt Lake City, who thinks it should be required reading for every Ph.D. candidate, asks, "Who is the individual (singular or plural) directly responsible for writing the article on the individual in America?" Reader Jensen's question is happily phrased, for the responsibility as usual is both singular and plural. The story was written by Henry Grunwald, and edited by Champ Clark. They had the help of three researchers, Margaret Quimby, Martha...
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...surgeons of old had some success in using part of a man's own arm to rebuild a nose or ear, but as early as 1597, Gasparo Tagliacozzi of Bologna wrote with great insight that "the singular character of the individual entirely dissuades us from attempting this work in another person, for such is the force and power of individuality." Three centuries later, Charles Claude Guthrie and Alexis Carrel learned the wisdom of this judgment. With great virtuosity, they proved that organ grafts between animals were surgically possible. Guthrie even succeeded in grafting a second head onto...