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...arrive at reasonably accurate speed figures. the key is his explanation of why the speed rating track variant found in the Racing Form is based on faulty correlations and is therefore useless. Beyer circumvents the erroneous derivations of the Form by computing his own speed figures and exhorts the reader to do the same. The process, however, is far from an easy...
...Including Pollster George Gallup, International Lawyer Rita Hauser, Reader's Digest Editor in Chief Hobart Lewis, former USIA Director Leonard Marks, and Author James Michener...
...openings that remain in the mind: "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me"; "Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing"; "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Where is the reader whose eye could rove from a page with those beginnings...
...Kawabata's lightness of touch, Beauty and Sadness may appear on casual reading to be rather slight. Yet it is perhaps the most elegantly constructed of Kawabata's novels. Like all of his works, it needs to be relished by the reader slowly, more like poetry than prose: associations must be given time to form, small details must be carefully absorbed. Kawabata was a master lyricist and a great writer about love; behind the misty outlines of his style one is bound to find a solid artistic core...
...were fascinated by it, of course." Ross says, "but we had no way of telling whether anyone else would be." The book began to sell almost immediately, however, and as its fame spread, so did reader response--an important source for many of the later editions' updated records. The McWhirters say they get about 10,000 letters a year, and answer all but a few--mostly American--whose authors neglect to include their addresses. "Sometimes they write a second time to demand an answer and the second letter lacks an address." Norris says firmly. "It isn't taught...