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...desserts with each meal. And it was a spaciousness of mind that made a summer of music, lectures and dramatic readings seem exciting, an attitude that the modern Chautauqua tries with fair success to preserve. In the early decades of this century, a variety of "Chautauqua" lecture circuits sprang up, borrowing the name and fame of the original retreat. These vanished with the Depression, but Chautauqua had a grandmother's-house permanence. Richard Reddington, 40, who now directs the institution's courses in such subjects as painting, dance and Chinese literature, married into a clan of Chautauqua summer...
...after a freak accident during a championship fencing match; in Rome. When Smirnov and West Germany's Matthias Behr lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...
Best of all, this series provides authoritative texts stripped of scholarly fussiness. During his last years, Wilson railed at the academic editing factories that sprang up across the U.S. in the mid-'60s; he argued that they were churning out editions of American classics unreadable by anyone but specialists. He had a point, but the work went on and eventually produced sound, if unspectacular, results. They are available to Libary of America editions. Many texts have been purged of errors that crept into them over years of reprintings. Some have grown. One research team found and restored...
Physics, too, seems capricious. Like mathematicians, Jakob notes, the physicists assume at whim and derive the consequences. Classical physics, at least, seemed more commonsensical; it had an other-worldly quality that lent its explanations an almost spiritual legitimacy. Equations alone lacked this aura. Classical physics' beauty, to Jakob, sprang from this peculiar marriage of the physical and the mystical...
...Chipwich cart. Chipwiches were the marketing phenomenon of Summer 1981. All around the city, hundreds of identical little brown carts sprang up and sold a single remarkable item; a scoop of ice cream between two chocolate-chip cookies, I only began to pass up the chipwich vendor when I realized that at a dollar a shot, I could buy two david's cookies and a small scoop of Haagen Dazs...