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Please allow me to congratulate Reader B F. Bayruns on his outright, earnest, objective summing up of our modern women...
Historian Blanch (The Wilder Shores of Love) finds her subject perhaps too fascinating for an orderly, steady-pulsed narrative, and now and then the reader is vexed by her somewhat florid digressions. But the period is little known and the players absorbing. Mme. de Stael's remark is quoted: "In Russia, if they do not attain their objective, they always go past it." The author can be forgiven if she does both...
Some of the paragraphs to complete really leave the casual reader wondering. A particularly tantalizing one says, "The rash of literature chronicling Harvard-Radcliffe love affairs...covers a range from the near-epic to the super-mundane. The stories have in common with each other a variety of unhappy endings...
...Reader Roth is right. TIME should have said that New York City's bus system was periodically paralyzed with strikes...
...crisis-created 300,000, ranks it only sixth among Paris' dailies. As a dutiful recorder of history, Le Monde prints the full texts of so many speeches and diplomatic exchanges that admirers compare it to the New York Times. Le Monde makes few concessions to the average reader. Says Beuve-Méry: "It has a stern aspect-no photographs, no cartoons, no short stories...