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...Empson once irreverently wrote, "a sense that this could be a good place to scratch." By close analysis, Empson has washed away many misreadings of poetry; by showing how varied and inventive poets are, he has often made them more exciting. But he may also frighten off readers who translate his lesson as: if you think you understand a poem, there is something wrong with you−or the poem. As a result, many a reader has felt that poetry was less a pleasure than a test, and decided not to bother with...
...avid reader of TIME and a sometime handler of show dogs, I'm very curious as to the breed of dog pictured with Mrs. Winston Guest on the cover of TIME, July 20. It looks a bit like a Saluki. JULIA L. HUNT New Haven, Conn. > Mrs. Guest's dog, Sultan, is indeed a smooth-haired Saluki, Egypt's royal dog and perhaps the oldest known domesticated breed...
...essays, however, are in themselves wonderful, thoughtful examples of young critical thinking at its best. Paul De Man (since lost to Cornell) contributes an essay on Wordsworth and Yeats; he is probably the most rigorous "close reader" of the bunch, and his essay successfully solves the problem which trips up many of his co-authors, making the careful analysis of particular poems yield insights into the writers' general concerns and methods. William Taylor (on his way to Wisconsin), who has the unenviable task of making Parkman's De Salle interesting, also succeeds where others fail, by skillfully combining description...
Says University of Minnesota Journalism Professor Raymond B. Nixon, who has made a study of the trend toward press monopoly: "The newspapers have changed their roles since the rise of monopolies "nd chains. They are not regarded today as primarily political mouthpieces." Today's reader, says Nixon, "buys newspapers for information and expects both sides of political questions. When newspapers started doing this, the need for reading two newspapers disappeared." The nation's press, always provincial in character, has become even more so. The metropolitan daily must bid for its readers not only against newsmagazines and TV, but against...
...moron (his mind makes few telepathic pictures), a small girl and an infant. Hungrily they trudge to their upland hunting grounds at the end of winter. They know that their numbers a're fewer than in past years, but they do not know why. Neither does the reader, who is left to speculate on plagues and warfare. Golding gives no more information than is available through the eyes of the Neanderthals-a difficult technique, but well suited to evoking the bleak terror of a race's ending...