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With my quoted words appearing out of full context as they do, the tone of the last paragraph of your story on Soapy Williams has suggested to some that I, as a close associate in his formative years, have lost confidence in his integrity and even may have abandoned my sincere personal friendship for him. It was certainly not my intention to convey that impression...
...Fuller, professor of Jurisprudence, felt that "there is no occasion at all to doubt Mr. Curtis's integrity." Fuller had not yet read the original article, but commented that "I think they've taken some isolated sentences out of context...
James Chace's In Winter; New England is the brighter star in this issue. Another chapter in the novel, Age of Michael, In Winter portrays the loneliness of several people as their life and friends disappear. In the context of the novel, this selection is enjoyable, but it suffers as a separate story because people enter and leave too abruptly and because the lack of adequate transitions between the thoughts of different characters often creates confusion. Chace is at his best when he records the impressions of Michael saying goodbye to his brother and of old, sick Mandy fighting against...
...concise portrait of an entire nation, high and low, old and young, male and female, lay and clerical, learned and ignorant." To revive this effect, Coghill decided to modernize the people's looks as well as their language, to suggest their old status by putting them in modern context. Where Chaucer, for example, says of the carpenter's flighty wife in "The Miller...
...grieved. "They wouldn't talk to us," cried Giovanni Ovino. "I said to myself: 'Maybe they don't like my black hair.' In a funny way, I felt ashamed of my hair. But how could I change it?" Domenico Loi saw it in a wider context. "They weren't Communists . . . But if they had been Communists, they couldn't willfully have damaged their nation more." As if in agreement, the unseen foghorn moaned...