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Presenting a variety of potential discoveries, the book Socratically challengers and humorously suggests many facets of such themes as artificial intelligence and consciousness but does not ask the reader to adopt a particular attitude toward the concepts. Each chapter starts with a dialogue, story or essay, which provides an interesting exploration of the mind, followed by an editorial reflection on the implication of the proposal...
...third party to the transaction-the anticipated watcher or reader-has to gain something from the interview too, which helps to keep the process honest...
...with a concert performance of Four Saints at Carnegie Hall. Thomson bounded onstage for tumultuous curtain calls, still pink-cheeked and cherubic and grinning impishly. A recording of Four Saints is now being made and is due out next year. A new collection of his writings, A Virgil Thomson Reader,has just been issued (Houghton Mifflin; 582 pages; $25). Convivially holding court in the suite that he has occupied for decades in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel, the old boy (as he has been fondly called) chats with a stream of visitors while fielding a barrage of calls from well...
...pursue a "more intellectually honest life." What he found was another calling. For 48 years, eleven volumes and nearly 10,000 pages, Will Durant labored with monastic devotion on a "biography of mankind" that would place 110 centuries of human thought and endeavor within easy reach for the average reader. The Story of Civilization was, he admitted, "an absurd enterprise, immodest in its very conception," but also irresistible to the compulsive teacher and self-confessed "lover of the lovers of wisdom," who died a week...
...born, Americanized cuisinière has won international fame with her writing and her La Varenne cooking school in Paris. With four colleagues the author traveled more than 6,000 miles and spent a year choosing and testing the 400 recipes in the book. Their salivant safari takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the Alps, from the sands of St.-Malo to the beaches of Nice, with hardly a dull plat en route. Willan succeeds admirably in analyzing the tastes, products, humors and quirks of each region. She proffers such delicate provincial dishes as dandelion salad, poularde en demi...