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...earlier this fall. I visited the Sackler Museum exhibit on art from the Kotah. I went because I wanted to see art, to feast my eyes on color and beauty, not because I wanted to learn about Indian culture. But at the exhibit I managed to do both. The text accompanying each painting put the pictures in the context of Indian folklore, colonial history and regional geography. By touting cultural events as representative of a whole culture and people, ethnic groups run the risk that, for example, people who disliked one Latin Dance show will not attend a speech about...
...Here's the pitch: Websites are built using markup languages--sets of rules for displaying information on a Web page. Today's standard language, HTML (hypertext markup language), was chosen at the dawn of the Web for its simplicity and the ease with which it combined pictures with plain text. This very simplicity, though, makes the Web in its current form a very tough place to do business...
...inconceivable, like Johnson's Dictionary without Dr. Samuel Johnson. For what mother and daughter remarkably accomplished was to filter a vast array of information through a personal style. Irma Rombauer's subtitle for the original 1931 Joy was A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Her text justified this advertisement. Here was the author on serving alcohol to guests: "Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination." This advice, offered two years before the repeal of Prohibition, was not only helpful...
...permanent display at the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. That fact contains an extra-literary, though no less poetic, irony. Across town, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, there is a plaque that sheepishly admits Abner Doubleday did not invent the game. At the same time, its text seems to suggest that a little mythology is not a bad thing. Just don't pay too much for too little...
Read the full text of Judge Zobel's decision...