But can they have accepted Edmund Wilson's verdict that all detective fiction is only Holmesish imitation, and elected to go back to Square One?

This year you can soak up its pre-Woodstock, pre-civil-rights-age vibe from the pages of a new memoirish coffee-table book peppered with photographs of family groups on Newport lawns called “A Privileged Life: Celebrating WASP Style,” by Susanna Salk, and also from the movie “Evening” — another WASP-y “remembrance of things past,” like the Susan Minot novel on which it is based.

Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.

The problem of cookbookery is not peculiar to data analysis. But the solution of concentrating upon mathematics and proof is.