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...pass them off as a characterization of your narrator. Segal takes full advantage of this technique (although his lapses are more the voice of a wisecracking writer than that of a Harvard preppie jock), which also permits brevity by enabling you to describe characters rather than illustrate them. The reader might not accept the words of an author who says. "Jenny was brilliant," but if Oliver Barrett IV himself says so- in the third sentence of the book- what can one do but believe...
With good reason. The book will be the basis for that course's one hour exam on Friday (ominously the 13th). Students can only hope that Banfield tells the truth in his preface when he assures the reader, "I am as well-meaning-probably even as soft-hearted...
...formulations, he implies, are the property of false messiahs: the liberation of individual psyches is as unique and conditional as individual neuroses. ?s typology of three physical kinds of people and their corresponding temperaments-complete with a point system to quantify mixtures offers some surprisingly sensitive insights on the reader's personal egoistic entrapments...
This reliance on plausible generalities when operational specifics are so sorely needed undercuts the value of the whole book. DeRopp is a very articulate man who usually has the good sense not to technically overshoot the vocabulary of the lay reader. But outside of recounting some enlightening but esoteric anecdotes, he really does little more than crystallize a sense that experience has given...
...reading. DeRopp helps us but little in acting on that knowledge. He verbalizes many of our sickest foibles and follows with a rejoinder like "On the other hand, the student of Creative Psychology (capital C. capital P) approaches the problem from a much healthier premise." After a while, the reader half expects to come across an application black to fill out and send away for your free, no-obligation introductory sample pamphlet on Creative Psychology...