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...regretted that letters lived on as a record of his private life, and tried to have them destroyed. But whereas Edel gives details on James only as they relate to the life of the mind--he analyzes James's doodles and word-games, and his "Freudian" slips in mis-writing dates on letters--Blotner presents all of the minute details as pedantic facts. Even the events that cry out for psychological interpretation--Faulkner's wife's suicide attempt on their honeymoon, his younger brother's death in an airplane stunt, his debilitating drinking--are spit out undigested, with the unexplored...
...then, a few statements in your article are, in fact, mis-statements and might lead to mis-directed, and possibly damaging, implications. First of all, the efforts late last spring to reverse the decision of firing Mrs. Mao must be credited to her students and was in no way connected with...
...importing too much under Heath's failed gamble for growth. As it happened, that was just what Harold Wilson was saying. Sharpening up his campaign strategy, the Labor leader charged that it was not the miners who had brought on the crisis but the government's economic mis management...
Getchell refused to alibi for the team's loss but he admitted "these games were masterpieces of mis-scheduling at 60 Boylston Street...
Last year SMU lost, 25-2, to Harvard in a mis-match of monumental proportions. The year before, the Corsairs dropped the Harvard contest...