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...19th century American engraving entitled The Old Wine God and the New, a graybeard Bacchus passes a vine-wreathed staff to a wide-eyed Western stripling. The artist's message: the age-old mysteries and delectations of the grape are flourishing in California soil. It must have evoked a guffaw or two from Victorian clubmen with noses deep in the real stuff from...
Most Compelling Soap Opera: The Watergate hearings, 319 hours of high-tension melodrama centered on that age-old theme-Did he or didn...
...problem is age-old and worldwide, but it has a new urgency. How hunger is conquered or left to spread will do nothing less than shape U.S. security and economic health in the future. So declares the 20-member Commission on World Hunger in a sobering report that will be presented this week to President Carter...
...your article "The Nobel Prizes" [Oct. 29], you state that "the social sciences are frequently not so intellectually taxing as scientific research." If the study of philosophy is simpler than physics, then why are we still perplexed by the same age-old queries in philosophy, while the results of scientific research have propelled man to the moon and provided us with "miracle drugs...
...this special committee each inadvertently reveal pairs of panties pulled from back pockets and briefcases, you start wondering what has happened to Stoppard's proverbial cleverness. In Jumpers he used stage acrobatics to poke fun at and illuminate complicated philosophical questions; here he finds no better use for age-old sight gags than to keep his audience interested between long recitations of names of English inns...