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Reference your review of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (TIME, Aug. 7) ... I suggest that the clue to this nightmare, as well as many other books that in view of the paper shortage should never have seen the light, can be found in the couplet of Pope: Such labored...
The Glee Club, giving a somewhat labored performance, was well received, but the Pops audience was more grateful to it for "Casey Jones, and "Tarantella" than for Valerius' "Prayer of Thans-giving." Kalman Novak '45 -played a brilliant solo in Schumann's Piano Concerto, but this, too, was a little...
Lieut. James Holmlund and his six radiomen had labored three months to get JJRP going. They built their transmitter out of spare parts brought in from all over the world. This week's practically perfect results were worth the effort.
The recording machine which Lieuts. Farr and Parks brought with them turned out a remarkably clear job on its first try. In a theater where the scarcity of electric power, the weather, and the nature of the country virtually prohibit front-line broadcasting, the crew have labored mightily to put...
Nevertheless Critic DeVoto then quotes with approval Van Wyck Brooks's diagnosis of what was wrong with much of that writing: "Writers have ceased to be voices of the people. . . . Preponderantly, our literature of the last quarter-century has been the expression of self-conscious intellectuals who do not...