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...reading list had begun to take on a writ of sanctity," said Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on social studies. "If you checked the first reading list [for Social Studies 10] with the last list, 75 percent of it would be identical...
...Bible: "The book of life. The book of food. The book of meals and miracles." % In its pages he finds the secrets of longevity and regularity. From Ezekiel come the ingredients for bread. Daniel serves lentils, and Nahum offers figs. Millet, barley, honeycombs and melons tumble from holy writ as exaltations of roughage...
...measurement, and embellishment." This might seem like a lot to swallow on a leisurely visit to the Fogg to check out some paintings, and the preponderence of jargon in a visual exhibit is certainly a turn-off, but Dilnot's choice to include these guides (the "four moments" are writ large on the walls of the gallery) is actually very helpful. They provide a very specific context for the objects, and without them it might be more difficult to prove, as it seems is the intention of the show, that the objects don't really fit, that objects are stubborn...
...Thirty years ago, when all this was starting, the model for manned flight was not Art Carney in the sewer but Vasco da Gama rounding the Cape. Long ago, public support for space exploration had two parts. First, a spirit of competition. It was sport -- war by other means -- writ large, very large: an international race to the moon...
...Samuel had rechristened himself Bill Barzell. That was too exotic for Dad, who did little but grumble about our foreign-sounding name until I started to get bylines on my high school paper. That did it. Not long after my bar mitzvah, he went to court and got a writ requiring the world to call us Barrett. In journalism, he assured me, an American name would help...