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Also especially worthy of mention is Thomas Whitbread's "The Noble Reader and the Sight of Words." Actually more a prose poem than anything else, it describes the distraction which the image of words on a page can offer in an attempt to find their sense. Lightly philosophic, it is easy to read, despite the myriad images...
...further poems by Whitbread are successful within their own limitations. "Don Ottavio" is a very tight little tale treated with a light touch and and a shrug--amusing and bemused. "Notices" entertains...
...irresistable right elbow," the axeman who can't stand the thought of head-chopping, and the bureaucrat who fills most every job in town, including officially checking up on his own corruption. This fellow, the Lord High Everything, is the best of the show, delightfully played by Thomas Whitbread. He is perfectly pompous, and his gift of timing makes even mundane lines amusing...
Regarding your Nov. 5 review of The Intelligent Man's Guide to Women by Vassar Girls Whitbread and Cadden: if these ladies are married,* I'm sure their husbands have the sympathy of all other men and women who read TIME'S piece...
...believe Whitbread and Cadden, the road ahead for most A.A.M. (Average American Male) Groggles promises to be a rough one, indeed. Unless, of course, like me, they're lucky enough to have married a girl who seems to prefer private happiness to public hypertension...