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...springing full-blown from this same faulty technique is the book's most serious fault-lack of character development. The reader must constantly depend upon random statements by one character judging another for either of them to be illuminated. We are told that Lara (for Zhivago, the life-force) symbolizes the oppression of the 19th century and the hope of the 20th; but someone has to say it, for in the characterization of her words and deeds there is no indication of such a symbolic meaning...
...There is no subject, said he, but the vocabulary is demanding, all right. Word-dazzled one night while browsing through a thesaurus, onetime Newsman (Neosho, Mo. News) McCulloh wrote 35 especially incandescent words on separate pieces of paper. Then he stuck them in a box, pulled them out at random, tacked them together with appropriate connectives, and added a wry title: Counterfeit Generation...
SUPERMANSHIP (128 pp.)-Stephen Potter-Random House...
FROM THE TERRACE (897 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
...fact that mixed tutorials work out well does not mean that each department can begin shuffling students around at random. In the first place, once girls begin to migrate to the Houses, tutors have to go there too. Most of the Houses have as many tutors as they can stand now, and several Masters have indicated they will not take any more. In the smaller fields, there is no reason why tutors affiliated with a House should have to tramp back and forth between the Houses and the Quad when they could handle mixed groups in the Houses...