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Structurally, her book is not a good novel. It halts, it twists and turns. But in the very special world of her blind children, tense, frustrated and febrile, Author Athas moves with uncommon grace and dignity. That world is enough to make The Fourth World memorable...
...recent interest of the University and the Ford Foundation in higher faculty salaries seems truly to herald the dawn of a new age of the uncommon man. Unfortunately, the sun is rising slowly, and the current plan for fringe benefits will only equal ten percent of the present payroll. Faced with the problem of making a little go a long way, and lacking the businessman's padded expense accounts, the Committee on Compensation has shown much ingenuity in circumventing taxes and still distributing the money equitably. Most of its recommendations show its success in evaluating the needs...
...often been known as the "age of the common man" in this country, and whatever may be said about this statement for other spheres, it seems to hold true for the economic world. Recently, attention has begun to swing back to the financial state of that group of most uncommon men, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which has been sorrily neglected since...
...else part of the time . . . The fellow you describe sounds a bit more like a character out of Mickey Spillane's "masterpieces." Somewhere beneath the literary imagination of your writer and above the "brogues gleaming richly on the broadloom" must exist a very competent individual composed of an uncommon amount of just plain Bill...
...abuilding, and Doenitz still hoped to send the bulk of the U.S. war effort to the ocean floor. But for the most part, Historian Morison recites the details of battle after battle, sinking after sinking, with a sailor's relish that keeps the pages turning at a speed uncommon for readers of sound history. Several writers-notably Commander Edward L. Beach in Submarine! (TIME, June 9, 1952) and Run Silent, Run Deep (TIME, April 4)-have graphically described the fearful strain and special terrors of the submariner's life. Author Morison, with his painstaking accuracy and his historian...