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Today Phoenix is leading Arizona into a boom which, if measured by statistics, skyline and traffic, seems much like the growth pattern that created such major cities as Detroit and sprawling Los Angeles. In fact the boom takes on a difference in quality and character from the backdrop of open land, air and sky that once made up the wildest Old West...
...Languages. Reading for Fun is an archly deceptive title. B.B.'s idea of literary fun was both rarefied and formidable. It ranged over more than half a dozen languages (German, French, Italian, English, Greek, Hebrew, Latin) and considerably more centuries. There was no pattern to his year's reading, but B.B. had a mind in which even fragments became touchstones of his aristocratic, rational, classicist temper. Sample reflections: ¶"I have always instinctively dreaded mysticism (although fascinated by it) as endangering the light of reason-a poor light, nearly always smoking, and often stinking...
...More railroads. 79. Following a seasonal pattern, the stock market in the first weeks of 1960: a) Rose...
...courses is not the only road for an education at this College. There is no reason why every student should not work, and work hard. But there is also no reason why his work should be circumscribed according to any concept of education in a proto-graduate school pattern...
...Germany during the fall and winter of 1637-38. The Thirty Years' War, which began two decades before, has long since degenerated from a conflict of comprehensible religious and political issues into a series of dogfights among irregular bands of mercenaries. Troops move about the country without pattern, leaving one hamlet in flames as they stalk out to feed on the next. It is the captain of such a rogues' company before whom Vogel, the author's protagonist, is dragged. With nothing more at stake than a life grown intolerable, Vogel speaks glibly. Instead of looting...