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...international conferences, almost boyishly handsome even in middle age. Sartorially splendid in the Savile Row tradition, he looked and talked like an MGM image of a British diplomat. But his long career in politics and foreign policy involved problems of substance more than niceties of style. An important, long chapter of British history closed last week when Robert Anthony Eden, the first Lord Avon, died at age 79 of liver failure at his manor house in Alvediston, Wiltshire...
...author's prose style is some times clouded by a purple hue, but his in sights are as clear as those in Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell. In one chapter Selzer defines the heart as "purest theatre . . . throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. It quickens in response to our emotions. And all the while we feel it, hear it, even - we, its stage and its audience." The liver is that "great maroon snail," of whose existence one is hardly aware until it malfunctions. "No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives...
...theory goes back much farther than 1929. Over 1,300 years ago, God revealed to his apostle Mohammed: "Are the disbelievers unaware that the heavens and the earth were one solid mass which we tore asunder, and that we made every living thing of water?" (Quoted from the Koran, Chapter 21, "The Prophets...
...seems, with the deliverance of Dean Fox's new testament on the housing issue this week, the closing chapter of this long and boring book might be at hand...
...more people if he published or broadcasted his thoughts. Or consider the listeners: you can't very well go to the middle third of a lecture, the part you're interested in, or read a newspaper during the boring parts. But you can skim a book, read a chapter, or even just read the table of contents. So the argument goes...