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...clear that both sides had paid elaborate attention to precisely such details. The news blackout that cloaked the two principals focused for a while more scrutiny, if possible, on their wives, who dutifully worked their way through a crowded schedule. Raisa Gorbachev, 53, still largely unknown and more unpredictable, attracted particular journalistic interest, and she did not disappoint, peppering her hosts with rapid-fire questions and spontaneous comments. At the University of Geneva, Raisa, a Ph.D. in Marxism-Leninism who has lectured in Communist theory at Moscow State University, startled the rector by engaging him in a conversation about...
...Complete Shakespeare, reported that he first glimpsed the find while checking through the Bodleian Library's listing of first lines in the catalog of its vast manuscript collection. He came across an entry reading, "Shall I die? Shall I fly . . ." The line, attributed to Shakespeare in the catalog, was unknown to Taylor. So one day last month he asked the Bodleian to show him its "Rawlinson Poetry Manuscript 160," a leather-bound collection of copied manuscripts that had been donated to the library in 1755 by Bishop Richard Rawlinson. There on leaf 108, all adorned with red curlicues...
...Unknown artists have always produced masterpieces. If we do not want to recognize the greatness of their works, that is our weakness. Harriet Moser Houston
Midge Decter was quoted as saying, "How can a person be qualified to teach without opinions?" But should those opinions be taught as established facts? I tell my students that my personal opinions are irrelevant and will, I hope, remain unknown to them. Although I am more educated than they, I am not necessarily more intelligent. Thus I ought to teach the subject matter and let them form their own opinions. Henry N. Bousquet Clinton, Conn. Unmanly Tears...
...Religion and Ethics published an entry on customs of kissing around the world. The author, Anthropologist Alfred E. Crawley, expatiated on the nose rubbing of the Maoris and the Sandwich Islanders, on the billing of birds and the antennal play of insects. "The kiss seems to have been unknown in ancient Egypt," the learned writer noted. "In early Greece and Assyria, it was firmly established." Then, in a gemstone of Victorian scholarship, Crawley remarked, "In abnormal forms [of kissing], some use of the tongue occurs...