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...Reader Eberhart is wife of often-laureled Poet Richard Eberhart...
...Your reader's letter [March 2] "No Einsteins, but also no Rosenbergs" obviously carries the inference that "half of them may be Einsteins, but the other half are Rosenbergs." By the same logic, "No George Washingtons, but no Benedict Arnolds"; "No Winston Churchills, but no Roger Casements...
...farewell lecture as Cambridge University's Reader of English, the grand panjandrum of British criticism, stiletto-tongued Frank Raymond Leavis, 66, set off the biggest explosion to rock Britain's literary Establishment in a decade. Leavis' target: Author-Bureaucrat Sir Charles Percy Snow, 56, whose, eight-volume novel cycle, Strangers and Brothers, has won him transatlantic renown as a perceptive interpreter of the new scientific culture of the 20th century. Dismissing their author as "portentously ignorant," irascible Humanist Leavis suggested that Snow's books "are composed for him by an electronic brain called Charlie, into which...
Under another name-offset printing-the growth of lithography in the U.S. has been phenomenal. There are more companies building web* offset presses today than there were web offset presses just 25 years ago. Many national magazines with international editions reach their overseas readers via offset presses. Of the Reader's Digest's 28 foreign editions.* for example, 21 are offset-printed-and so are 72 to 96 pages, or more than 25%, of each issue of the Digest's U.S. edition (13.5 million...
...glittering words are on view; on page after page the reader's eye is caught by a lambent phrase that subtly calibrates a mood, or a rasping epithet that tears through surface felicity at exactly the point where the author wants granite to show. But before long, although Updike's gifts of language have no trace of falsity, the repeated realization of cleverness begins to be annoying. Unwillingly the reader commences to play put-and-take, acknowledging a score for the author after an especially well-put sentence, taking a point away when a mannerism becomes obvious...