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...story moving in a brisk and nearly suspenseful manner. Her careful annotations (which are thoughtfully formatted at the end of each letter instead of at the end of the book or at the end of each chapter) breathe new life into the authors' literary gossip and exchanges of wit. Bernard makes excellent use of photographs, interspersing small, unintrusive pictures into the margins at relevant moments. This type of attention to the details of story-telling--of organizing her scholarship in accordance with the demands of her narrative--helps create the sense of a remarkably unified and cohesive story. The literary...
BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT Talking to your infant is good, but uttering individual words might be better. According to a study by a professor at Washington University, children younger than 15 months learn words like kitty, red or come more quickly when their parents say them frequently and by themselves. Such isolated words form the foundation for early vocabulary learning. The study challenges recent theories that infants learn language by hearing sentences and segmenting them into individual words...
...Nishi Azabu apartment and consider this sorry career I had embarked upon, these losers I associated with compounding the very long odds that I would ever amount to anything. It really seemed there was no hope, that I was destined to become this shabbily dressed, dull mediocrity, short on wit, lacking talent, unable to muster the power or engines for sustained flight...
...DIED. JOHN MACKAY,62, tough-talking senior Conservative in Britain's House of Lords and former cabinet minister whose dry wit made him popular even with his opponents, of a heart attack; in London. First elected an M.P. in 1979, Mackay served as Social Security Minister under John Major from 1994-97, and become Lord Mackay when he was elevated to the House of Lords in 1991 where until recently he was deputy Conservative leader...
...Fragments are all that are left of Heraclitus's great book, "On Nature," which was lost many centuries ago. The Fragments have a scattered, enigmatic quality - epigrams and bits of poetry saved from the ruins. But they have a wit, and, for an "obscure" philosopher, a prismatic clarity that travels well across centuries. The thoughts remain fresh and profound. Haxton's translation shines them up handsomely...