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Descended from a long line of scholars headed by his great-grandfather, who was president of Harvard and editor of the five-foot shelf, Eliot ignores headlines and the cold war and makes his study nature. What he finds-from the eagle-hung abyss below Delphi to the song of the local vegetable man-delights him, and he passes on his delight to the reader in prose that is sometimes eloquent, sometimes merely latter-day inspirational. "The stars rained down their incandescent spears in sharply patterned salvos upon Mount Pentelikon and me. Staggering a little with my face uplifted, rapt...
...Fail-Safe System. Stouffer's recipe for success is to concentrate on plain dishes prepared the way Mom used to make them, and to have only women do the cooking. Five-foot five-inch Vernon Stouffer, 61, who is married and the father of three, is convinced that "women know food better than men. They like to fuss with foods-they care more." Stouffer's food is unlikely to send a gourmet into raptures, or to show much evidence of fuss, but it is inevitably eatable, usually tasty, always well-served, and priced moderately. The economy luncheon special...
...comprehensive a project as Christianity in a Revolutionary Age might be the masterwork of a lesser historian. For Latourette, the series occupies only a modest corner in the personal five-foot shelf of books he has written or contributed to. In all, he has 88 titles to his credit, including a seven-volume history of Christianity from its beginnings until World War I. Historian Latourette is also that academic rarity-a specialist in two separate fields. Rivaling his fame as a chronicler of Christianity is his reputation as a leading Orientalist: he has written four books on China, including...
...literature at the University of Stockholm, she discovered that cataloguing was not really her game: at the remarkably late age of 25 she gave it up to become a dancer. Since then, as one of Europe's most talked-about choreographers, she has been busy constructing her own five-foot shelf of bibliophilic ballets: Medea, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie. Last week she was in Manhattan to witness the premiere by the American Ballet Theatre of her latest work, titled Lady from the Sea, based on a moderately successful play by Henrik Ibsen...
Critic Clifton Fadiman, the Schweppes-man of belles-lettres, thinks that everyone's mind is dreadfully underdeveloped. He is right, of course. A load of guilt equivalent to the combined weight of Dr. Eliot and his "Five-Foot Shelf" rests upon nearly all college-exposed Americans, by whom too many of the great books are unread or unremembered...