.dandydave digs into the upcoming new edition of 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations' and unearths several quotes you might think you know but probably don’t. trib.al/yDAq9hy

Barbara Wallraff's next May I have a word challenge: come up with a suitable term for “snacks served with drinks, after dinner.” Submit your suggested coinage by Friday, Oct. 28! trib.al/sBOrQ8I

Much remains unknown about CAR T therapy — which uses T cells to target specific diseases — but one thing is clear: We are only at the beginning of a medical revolution, say Penn’s Daniel Baker and Carl June. trib.al/OnM7QUn

Even in — especially in — the Google era, a massive book of quotes never gets old trib.al/hGMqAsQ

What personhood proponents want may be a heavier lift than the reversal of Roe — a national ban on abortion would poll terribly in large swaths of the country, writes UC Davis Law professor Mary Ziegler. trib.al/iUcz1Ug

I must be one of the half dozen Americans left who doubt that US democracy, as we’ve known it, is on the brink of collapse, says Jonathan Schlefer. US democracy has held for good reasons, and they haven’t gone away. trib.al/93RzE9A

It took a funhouse mirror and visits to every carnival she could find for @ritazoeychin to shed the distorted image of herself that she grew up with. 'The grotesque became a kind of beautiful,' she writes.

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In a childhood marked by abuse, a carnival offered Rita Zoey Chin rare and fleeting respite. 'I was almost wrecked by rapture,' she writes. 'How could such a place exist? These swings sailing me through the air? This Ferris wheel practically touching the moon?'

Read a new op-ed from Thomas E. Ricks for The Boston Globe: 'An insight from the civil rights movement: How to hold meetings' bit.ly/3rTOTME

Elite liberal institutions say that they want to diversify. But Abdallah Fayyad wonders: Do they actually intend to break down barriers to entry for the most disadvantaged among us? Or do they mainly want people to see more melanin in their brochures?

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If we lower the red-state and blue-state coats of arms and focus on specific issues, Americans are actually more sensible than we think, says Jonathan Schlefer, who is more optimistic than many about the state of our democracy. trib.al/yWXpQkQ

“Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” deserves its reputation for being authoritative. Researchers comb thousands of sources, write to authors, and check original documents, says Dave Kindy. trib.al/LmrUAnh

A disease-slaying drug that lives on in the body? trib.al/wFIDhgI

I’m grateful for my garden’s abundance but sad the season is over. With so many chores to do, though, there’s little time for contemplation, writes Daryln Brewer Hoffstot. trib.al/xpp7E2x

It’s 1986, and I’m a brooding teenager who’s already irritated with the world when she puts the kibosh on my plan to deflower my left ankle with a tattoo when I turn 18, says Shanti L. Nelson. trib.al/NOyhStB

Boston’s history of nonprofit-led urban development reveals some troubling, perhaps uncomfortable, lessons about what happens — and what doesn’t — when we rely on private organizations to solve public problems, says Claire Dunning. trib.al/nocvCww

Barbara Wallraff challenges readers to repurpose New England names in this week’s May I Have a Word. Barnstable, Seekonk, and Tolland, Mass.? Boscawen and Lempster, N.H.? trib.al/XQ9QGMn

T cells tailor-made to see and kill cancer were a medical revolution when they were developed a little over a decade ago. Now, researchers are studying similar therapy’s impact on other types of diseases, say Penn’s Daniel Baker and Carl June.
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