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...Gary Lynn Taylor, 32, joint general editor of the Oxford University Press's forthcoming New Complete Shakespeare, reported that he first glimpsed the find while checking through the Bodleian Library's listing of first lines in the catalog of its vast manuscript collection. He came across an entry reading, "Shall I die? Shall I fly . . ." The line, attributed to Shakespeare in the catalog, was unknown to Taylor. So one day last month he asked the Bodleian to show him its "Rawlinson Poetry Manuscript 160," a leather-bound collection of copied manuscripts that had been donated to the library...
...Shall I die? Shall I fly Lovers' baits and deceits, sorrow breeding? Shall I fend? Shall I send? Shall I shew, and not rue my proceeding? In all duty her beauty Binds me her servant for ever. If she scorn, I mourn, I retire to despair, joying never...
...Taylor, who wears an earring rather like the one in Shakespeare's portrait, is learning quickly that all the scholarly world's a stage and all the scholars merely players. "I've always regarded this hoo-ha as slightly absurd," he says, "and once it is over, I shall go back to being as ordinary as dirt." --By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Steven Holmes/London
...Assembly; in Manila. A newspaperman before World War II and a Pulitzer prizewinner (in 1942, for a series of articles on the Japanese military threat to Southeast Asia), Romulo served as a brigadier general on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, for whom he coined the rallying cry "I shall return" that followed MacArthur's retreat from the Japanese-besieged Philippines in 1942. In 1945 Romulo persuaded the framers of the U.N. charter to endorse independence for colonized countries, and he became an ardent advocate for Third World concerns...
...ingredients . . . er, components, are described in Pentagonese worthy of Star Wars. Vanilla flavoring is called for "in such quantities that its presence shall be organoleptically detected, but not to a pronounced degree." Translation: having some taste and smell. Preparation instructions run on for five pages, requiring that "the blended fruitcake batter, sufficient to yield the specified weight, shall then be deposited into cans with liners and disks" and baked at not more than 375° or steamed "to meet the end requirements of 3.5," another section of MIL-F-14499F...