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...foster home after his parents declared they could not provide for him. Then his parents changed their minds, and social workers returned the boy-even though he expressed fear of his father. Four months later, according to police, the father beat the boy senseless. Johnny's skull was crushed. After lying for four weeks in a coma, he died. As a result, an Illinois senate committee has been holding hearings on whether to change child-care laws to resemble those of California, where "due weight" is given to the child's own wishes about custody...
...Santa Claus came to town last week in Flushing, N.Y.-not a department-store imitation but the original St. Nicholas, who was a 4th century bishop in the Asia Minor city of Myra. Or at least a part of him came. Relics of the saint-fragments of his skull and a vial of oily substance said to have oozed from his skull-were formally enshrined in St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Flushing. A gift from the Roman Catholic Church to the Greek Orthodox, the relics were sent to New York from the cathedral in Bari, Italy, where other relics...
Beckett's terrain is the skull; drama's terrain is society. Aristotle defined tragedy as the imitation of an action; Beckett's quasi-tragedies are imitations of nonaction. Drama thrives on characters; Beckett's work contains no characters, only the solitary vagrant thoughts of an agonized brain. Why, then, should such an antitheatrical playwright be touted as a master? One may only speculate that a despairing age simply mistakes his statements of paralysis, alienation and isolation for some sort of apocalyptic wisdom...
...BOOK THROUGH FIVE THOUSAND YEARS Edited by H.D.L. Vervliet. 496 pages. Phaidon. $60. This scholarly volume contains a sentence that should be carved inside the skull of anyone who approaches a gift-book counter in the next few weeks: "A good book badly printed is infinitely more valuable than a bad book beautifully printed." Fortunately the maxim is not mocked here. The text, by several authorities, is for the general reader who wants to learn. Title notwithstanding, less space is devoted to the bound book than to its precursor the manuscript, whose history is far longer and richer. From Mesopotamia...
...must attempt to figure out how these parts will change as the youngster matures. Dr. Geoffrey Walker of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry has come up with a method that promises to reduce the guesswork involved in this process. He has taken 15,000 skull-profile X rays made over a period of years and converted these pictures to coordinate maps of the skull and jaw. The result is a computer model capable of predicting how a jaw will grow. With just a single X ray of a patient, Walker says that he can project a pattern...