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Perhaps out of deference to his lofty subject, in the retelling of this familiar feat, and all the others, which necessarily make up a large portion of his story, Parkinson customarily confines himself to a somewhat plodding, precis narrative. As a result, his biography may be mainly read by Hornblower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ha-h'm | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

A sorrowful precis

Author: By John Viertel, | Title: Music Capitol's 'Follies' | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

That's the sorrowful precis,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Once and Future Follies | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

Bergreen has reorganized-and necessarily simplified-Twain in order that Huck's gradual recognition of the nigger Jim's humanity and, more than that, friendship provide a thematic structure. In counterpoint are arranged those episodes ashore in which Huck discovers the prevailing inhumanity of most other pre-Civil War, Mississippi...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Story Theatre Huckleberry Finn at the Loeb, this weekend and next | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

Throughout the interview. Vernon would act the lion tamer. He would kid about radical criticism of the Center and then smile for agreement. At one point, when I asked about a book entitled United States Manufacturing in Brazil and quoted a passage from a Center Report showing its political bias...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

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