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One reason that Reagan continues to capture the national fancy is his seeming eternal youth. He simply will not lie down and act his age. When he went to the hospital the other day for his colon checkup, he had been off solid food for 24 hours. After then enduring...
At 78, William Steig seems to have found the secret of eternal freshness: compose a children's book nearly every year. For 1985, it is Solomon the Rusty Nail (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95). A jaunty rabbit finds that he can turn himself into the useless metal object any time he...
That blending involved some distinctly modern ideas. Maimonides argued that the biblical account of creation out of nothingness was a more plausible concept than the eternal universe of Aristotle. But he also declared boldly that if his philosophical thinking had substantiated Aristotle's view, he would simply have reinterpreted the...
The Duchess of Sanseverina, the real heroine of Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma, understood all such things when she considered the prospects of her lover and sighed, "J'ai vu tomber tant de choses que j'avais crues eternelles." (I have seen the fall of so many things that I...
Prehistoric man, a history of shaving relates, shaved with clams and animal teeth, or pieces of flint sharpened against harder stones. Because of the inconvenience of these razors, however, the practice of walking clean-shaven didn't really catch on until 356 B.C. when bronze razors were available, according to...