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...Reader Rowland Allen [April 15] feels that the existence of intangibles can't be proved! Ever put your hands around love? Pour loyalty into a test tube? Examine courage under a microscope? Of course not, Mr. Allen, intangibles don't exist...
...cathouses, and its 500 restaurants can be followed by $20 doctor bills. In addition, most of the legitimate establishments have become so overrun with tourists that their prices have soared and they are always full. Its greatest danger, however, is that it is likely to lead the unwary reader into taking a trip he cannot afford-and leave him strapped and stranded when his money doesn't stretch as far as Frommer said it would. Says one disillusioned follower: "Europe on Five Bum Steers...
Still, there is nothing like a good travel guide, with its neat ratings, its tidy categories superimposed on a motley world, its flattering assumption that the reader is boundlessly curious and energetic, and its ability to recreate a trip after it is over. For one test of a good travel guide is not how well it serves abroad but how well it stands up back home. The returned traveler's particular pleasure is to read his guidebook to see where he has been. As he grows more experienced, he discovers an even greater pleasure-to argue with his guidebook...
Matter of Conscience. The Index is a product of the Council of Trent's counter-reforming zeal to protect Catholics against Protestant error. The first Index was published in 1559; it gradually grew into an impressive reader's non-guide to literature that might endanger faith or morals. By the 18th century, it was something of a sign of excellence to be listed; among the condemned classics of the Index are Montaigne's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and the works of Descartes, Hume, Hobbes and Voltaire...
...acquainted with the facts, but Lacouture has personal experience with the subject. His advantage over other historians is that he knows the people who made the events. When he mentions Ho Chi Minh or Premier Ky, he recalls his personal interviews with them, sometimes transcribing the conversations verbatim. The reader shares the insider's viewpoint and impressions...