We have always felt that the 19th century author Alexander Smith didn't say it quite right when he wrote, "It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it." Shifting the emphasis, we believe that what you say is important but how you say it makes a whale of a difference. Some examples from this week's TIME:

Like a Polaris missile, the great fish roars out of the water, sometimes jumping twelve feet or more as he goes raging and tail-walking across the ocean.--See SPORT, All Out for Banzai!

For those who would savor the texture of the land and recover their sense of place, there are the shunpike and the minor road, a network of Indian trails and reconstructed canal routes; tortuous drives that skirt oceans below and wind around mountains, cross plains and valleys, run after rivers through national parks and state museums, ghost towns, rain forests and whaling ports. --See MODERN LIVING, Sights on the Shunpike.

The primary symbol of France today is an image, from the movie screen, of a young man slouching in a cafe chair, his socks sagging over broken shoelaces, his shirt open to the waist, his arms dangling to the floor, where his knuckles drag. A Gauloise rests in his gibbon lips and its smoke meanders from his attractively broken, Z-shaped nose.--See SHOW BUSINESS, Breathless Man.

Learning one step at a time, at their own pace, they become more self-reliant and confident. A three-year-old lies on a rubber mat, arranging a washbasin and cups; a five-year-old, blindfolded with a blue eyeshade, feels a sphere, a cube, a cylinder, following out some blueprint in his mind. -- See EDUCATION, Montessori in the Slums.

Like the Bard, pre-Bach music is not to be forgotten. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries--Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Tobias Hume, John Wilbye, John Dowland--Pro Musica shook the dust off a score of Elizabethan madrigals and lute songs, embellishing the rarefied melodies with a rhythmic liveliness and delicate twining of voices and instruments to produce, in Shakespeare's words, "sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not."--See Music, The Ancient's Mariner.

To sit through the film is something like holding an elephant on your lap for two hours and 15 minutes. You can hardly measure what you have there, but it leaves a definite impression; it's big, it's warmhearted, and tons of fun for the kids.--See CINEMA, Sawdust Spectacular.

His tangled white curls were clamp with perspiration, his face was pale. The pouches beneath his eyes were dark; his voice was hoarse but strong. --See THE NATION, The Ev & Barry Show.

Roar. Rattle. Bump-bump-bump. Bee-eep beep. Clang. Rat-tat-tat. The illuminated sign at a Nishi-Ginza intersection in downtown Tokyo blinks a tentative 80, then flashes to 82. Red light. Screech! North-south traffic stops. The number blinks: 81, 79, 78. Ready, eastwest? Engines whine. Clutches out. Getaway! Flash goes the sign: 79, 81, 82--84!--See THE WORLD, The Fresh Start.

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