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...more than just their accents. Yet despite their shortcomings these dialogues reveal just enough of what would become widely known as Cain's "hard-boiled" writing to warrant inclusion in the collection, and, as Norman Mailer said of his own early writings in Advertisements for Myself, they allow the reader the luxury of seeing a writer at his worst as well as at his best...
...mushrooming popularity of personal computers has now begun to spur the development of data banks specially tailored for individual consumers. The Source, which is a subsidiary of Reader's Digest, offers subscribers everything from financial planning to word processing. Source subscribers can monitor the schedule of current legislative activities in the Congress, check the latest changes in airline schedules and send "electronic mail" to other subscribers by using Source computers as a kind of space-age postal system. Gerald Reinen, a Massachusetts business consultant, reports that not only does he use the Source for business applications at the office...
...single mention of the women's boats whether lightweight, heavyweight, mixed crews, pairs or even the Radcliffe varsity eight. I will credit you with the inclusion of a picture of a women's eight going beneath a bridge but there was not even a caption telling the reader which club or university the crew was a member of. The picture of the Navy four had a large caption elaborating on the physical form of the oarsmen and the fact that the Navy heavy eight had taken the championship that...
Sometimes, as you know, one is "bumped" on voir dire because he is a reader of TIME...
DURING THESE GOINGS-ON, unfortunately, McCullough's superficial portraits leave the reader emotionally detached. McCullough herself unwittingly calls attention to some of the holes in her description: The hospital base, Nurse Langtry decides, has made "almost no impression at all. As if it were a stage set, without substance or real meaning of its own, simply a claustrophobic backdrop for a complicated interplay of human emotions, wills, and desires." This image applies all too well to the picture we have been given of the happenings on Ward X. In fact, the backdrop McCullough describes amounts only to the sketchy biographical...