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...teaching people how to read them. With Robert M. Hutchins, former chancellor of the University of Chicago, he winnowed Western thought into Great Books of the Western World, a 54-volume set of 443 works by 74 authors (from Homer to Freud), which was published in 1952. To help readers explore those works, he classified man's search for wisdom into 102 basic ideas (from "Angel" to "World") and fashioned an index which he called the Syntopicon, meaning "collection of topics." It directs a reader exploring the ideas to every mention of them in the Great Books, plus...
Adler recommends that a reader skim a book, deciding in an hour or less whether it is worth reading. If so, he should read it quickly to gain an overall impression. Then, if it is a book that will increase his understanding, he should reread it slowly, applying 15 rules of analysis. (Sample: "Know the author's arguments, by finding them in, or constructing them out of sequences of sentences.") Adler's method also requires the reader to underline key statements, make marginal notes and outline the main points on the end papers. Such notations will not only...
...number of Barth's favorite themes. Composed in three parts, "Dunyaza-diad," "Perseid" and "Bellerophoniad," the book is largely a gag at the expense of conventional literary forms. Instead of having characters symbolize archetypes as most novelists do, Barth uses the archetypes themselves as characters. Fortunately for the reader, Barth -who is also an English professor at the Buffalo campus of the State University of New York -provides a pony. (Pegasus by any name is just as helpful.) As he explains in Chimera: "Since myths themselves are among other things poetic distillations of our ordinary psychic experience...to write...
...first new Time Inc. magazine since SPORTS ILLUSTRATED appeared in 1954, MONEY will carry a comparatively high cover price of $1.50 on newsstands, in line with the current trend toward asking the reader to pay a higher share of publishing costs. It will depend less on advertising for its profitability than do such large-circulation magazines as TIME (5.6 million) and LIFE (5.5 million). Using a promotion technique new to Time Inc. magazines, MONEY is offering potential subscribers a free look at its first issue before requiring any payment. "We want to let them look without feeling the instant obligation...
Insights can come from sour dreams. But after several such stories the reader may rebel at the some what mechanical process by which the dreams are triggered. Once learned, it is the same trick every time it is done. Barthelme used this single effect to transmute himself with rapidity into a brilliant bore, and it would be a shame if Goldberg repeated that wasteful performance...