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...adopted, visits a social worker to start the legal process of learning the identity of her natural parents. Philippa is beautiful and cold; long ago she guessed that the Palfreys had selected her, when she was eight, because of her grave intelligence and unusual looks. For her and the reader the cruel blow comes early: her real parents turn out to be murderers of the most melodramatic sort. For the rest of the story James must crawl back from a cliché that might have been assigned to her in a nightmare game of charades. That she does...
...fancy, perhaps, but each of Brian's successive drafts was clearer, better punctuated, more vivid and more conscious of his reader. These are the main goals of Graves, who, with a $240,000 grant from the National Institute of Education, teaches writing to elementary school pupils in a style more like that of a working editor than a stern grammarian. The experiment is part of a wave of writing reform that is sweeping through schools, colleges and businesses all over the U.S. In the age of talk shows, tape recorders, telephonitis and declining educational standards, the clearly written word...
Albert would be a solipsistically in ward character, mildly insufferable, if it were not for the extraordinary grace and intelligence of Rogin's prose, which some times accomplishes small, splendid feats of magic. At one point he warns the reader: "What follows is tender and complicated." Exactly...
...clubs, inserting of needles under fingernails, crushing of testicles with pliers, and the last word in torture devices: the 'Tucker telephone,' an instrument used to send an electric current through genitals." In Jail: The Ultimate Ghetto, Ronald Goldfarb records so many atrocities of prison life that the reader is scarcely surprised to learn that in the District of Columbia jail a young white antiwar protester of the 1960s was raped dozens of times by blacks. In a 75-page opinion, Federal Judge John L. Kane Jr. last December held that conditions in Colorado's Old Max prison...
...Author V.S. Pritchett. It does not matter whether the subject at hand is a biography or a novel, a collection of short stories or of essays. Pritchett brings to them all the eye of a craftsman (he has written in these forms himself) and the .sympathy of an incurable reader. He is generous, to a virtue...