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...should be grateful if you would correct the attribution of the quotation concerning the analogy between scientific data and telephone numbers. Though I included this statement in an essay that I wrote some years ago, I cannot claim credit for its authorship. It was originally made by English Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington...
...Sir Willie Morris, former British ambassador to Egypt, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia, said yesterday recent events have increased the likelihood of a full-scale war in the Middle East...
...paintings are in their usual places. A visitor looking for this temporary exhibit would be hardpressed to find anything which could qualify as "The Exhibit of Perfect," and would soon find himself turning over in his mind the vaguely amusing questions he might put to the guard: "Excuse me sir, but I can't find the perfect here. Could you lead me to the perfect?" Finally, the visitor would leave feeling mildly puzzled or self-consciously gullible or simply vexed at having wasted his time on this silliness...
...Geils Band: Love Stinks (EMI-America). Best title of the year. "I been through diamonds/ I been through minks/I been through it all/ Love stinks" is good cautionary advice for a heady season. It's not Sir John Suckling, but it sure beats Seger's pastilles about star-crossed lovers and drip-dry romances. The J. Geils Band, like Seger, has a hard r & b foundation, but, unlike Seger, they are not going overripe. This is a good-times record that makes no apologies for its frivolity, comes off fresh, wild and goofy -like a recital...
...Britain's longtime touchstone of taste and guru of grace, he prided himself on the beau geste. So it was not surprising when the will of Sir Cecil Beaton, who died in January at 76, was read that a special friend had been singularly remembered. After monetary bequests and disposition of paintings, photographs and papers accumulated in a lifetime of photography, writing and theater, Beaton made another gift. To Actress Greta Garbo, now 74, who in the 1940s rebuffed Bachelor Beaton's tender of love and marriage, went a remembrance: an exquisite oil of one red rose...