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...dead, read Barron's Business Weekly. "National Labor Relations Board Must Go," muses their September 23 front page. Not by chance did the same article appear in the Wall Street Journal, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Charlotte Observor, the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Reader's Digest...
EVERY SO OFTEN, one man writes the kind of book which grasps a thousand little threads of fact and forcefully weaves them together into a pattern so clear, that the reader wonders why he had not seen it all along. Eldridge Cleaver has done just this in Soul...
Bananas or Banannas. From the viewpoint of the ordinary reader, Wilson certainly has a point. The M.L.A. editions are crammed with niggling notes on whether Herman Melville used the spelling "bananas" or "banannas" and whether Howells wrote "wrapt" or "wrapped." In an earlier review of the M.L.A. edition of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University), Cultural Critic Lewis Mumford found the text so cut up by the "barbed wire" of notations and arcane diacritical symbols that it was virtually unreadable...
What saves the book from being mere female savagery is Spark's balancing sensitivity to naked human need. Annabel debases herself in a desperate attempt to protect her blameless, hardworking existence. Without sentimentality, the author pities Annabel; the reader can laugh at her but cannot side against...
...silly question and you get a silly answer. If the reader is as persistent and as humorless as the anonymous interrogator, he gets 122 pages of very silly answers indeed...