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Because Marcus is at once sensitive to the texture of a writer's language and to his wider concerns, he excels at the traditional critic's touchstone of talent, the actual reading of a text. Marcus's ability to illuminate unseen aspects of familiar texts and to enrich their meaning is quite remarkable. In his book on Engels (1974), by contrasting Mill's and Dickens's responses to London to those of Engels, Marcus brings out at exactly what point in The Condition of the English Working Classes in 1844 Engels understands the industrial revolution in a systematic way inaccessible...
...rest of the Politburo had already read and approved the Premier's remarks. What may be more revealing than Brezhnev's absence, suggested U.S. analysts, is that Kosygin limited himself to economic matters. Noted a State Department Kremlinologist: "Previously, it never bothered Kosygin to speak on a wider range of issues, but this time he avoided poaching on any Brezhnev territory...
...study released this week, researchers at the University of Chicago attributed the decline to a wider choice of electives and a "decrease in the basics in high school curriculums...
Just Failed. The Tablet, the influential Catholic weekly, welcomed the appointment as "sagacious and imaginative," while the wider-circulation Catholic Universe thought the selection of a monk "puts an emphasis on spiritual values." But others stressed the negative. The bishops, who would be the normal candidates, are generally better known for fund raising than spiritual or intellectual attainments. Last fall the national priests' conference drafted a memo that indirectly criticized the quality of the bishops. In the words of a well-placed Vatican official, the English hierarchy "just failed to produce a leader with the qualities Pope Paul demanded...
...then the need for discretion, self-control and clear prose will be greater than ever. And if the beast can be tamed, the benefits of freer expression and the wider dissemination of information will be multiplied over and over and over and over and over...