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...HOPE MY INFERENCE is clear. The As go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The Bs go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get As, too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long...
Still, Maastricht marked a major milestone in the European Community's quest for greater integration. Although the word federal does not appear in the treaty -- once again, at British insistence -- the text does call for "an ever closer union." Three decades ago, Jean Monnet, the E.C.'s founding father, championed the notion that tighter economic ties would produce closer political cooperation. In Maastricht that dream was endorsed with renewed enthusiasm by the leaders of the new Europe...
...Ancient bones are the first stop-motion pictures of evolution -- life frozen in its tracks eons and epochs ago. Astonishing photographs examine the evidence of prehistoric dragonflies, early fish, flying reptiles, horned dinosaurs and human ancestors. A lively text explains the close-ups from nature's family album...
...oratorio, the someone else was Carl Davis, an American-born film composer and accomplished pastiche artist. After McCartney wrote the text and invented the tunes, Davis arranged them slickly for soprano (Kiri Te Kanawa at the Liverpool premiere and on the recording), mezzo (Sally Burgess), tenor (Jerry Hadley), bass (Willard White), boy soprano, chorus, cathedral choir and full orchestra...
...tendency is to use Keillor's essays and stories as a sacred text of a new Midwestern religion. But Garrison Keillor writes about a world that everyone knows. WLT: A Radio Romance traces, via a fictional narrative, the birth of radio, its peak of popularity and its decline...