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...which has been used experimentally in the treatment of schizophrenic children and alcoholics. Knowledge of the complex, infinitely various, unbelievably hardy fungus kingdom has multiplied immeasurably in the past century. In this fascinating, ambitious book by Lucy Kavaler, its villains, heroes and hopefuls are fully explained to the nonscientific reader...
...that a number of your TIME Essays have been published, it is appropriate for a reader to congratulate you as well as ask some questions...
SPECIALISTS in every field from cardiology to television develop their own trade jargon. Newsmen writing about those specialties must learn the lingo-in order to pass it along to the reader with appropriate translation or, perhaps more often, to protect the reader from it. Spacemen, of course, have their own jargon too. In doing the basic reporting for this week's cover story (see THE NATION), Houston Bureau Chief Ben Cate picked up some of the newer entries in the space vocabulary...
Funk made the entire nation self-conscious about its vocabulary. For 20 years he turned out a monthly column on vocabulary building for the Reader's Digest, and he wrote innumerable books: 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, 25 Magic Steps to Word Power. No pedant, he praised Walter Winchell for adding phffft to the language, and H. L. Mencken for contributing booboisie. "Simple and clear expression," he said, "is usually the difference between a sizzle and a fizzle...
First, since each reader would be forced to meet would be likely to refine his opinions with some care both the author of the thesis and the other reader, he before the conference. Secondly, an hour's threeway discussion could be extremely educational in itself. It could give a student real insights into the strength and weaknesses of his work, and would give him a chance to understand fully his readers' reactions...