Word: account
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Brooks also pointed out that the report does not take into account specific areas within fields. "For instance," he said, "we have a distinguished group in the sanitary engineering program within the civil engineering field. But the rankings do not recognize...
GAUGUIN IN THE SOUTH SEAS, by Bengt Danielsson. In a levelheaded account of Gauguin's exile years in Tahiti and the neighboring Marquesas, Anthropologist Danielsson perceives the man without debasing the artist...
PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. Writing with candor, an old acquaintance gives a lively account of the most famous literary man of his generation...
...also stimulates his bank account. Last week, for example, Bazelon went to the bluegrass country to oversee the recording of his Short Symphony by the Louisville Orchestra. He took advantage of the happy coincidence by flying in a few days early to take in the Kentucky Derby, bet $200 on Kauai King, the eventual winner, and walked off with combined winnings for the day of a stimulating...
This cruelly candid self-assessment appears in the remembrance of his nephew Robin, who is himself a novelist (The Servant, The Slaves of Timbuktu). And although the effect is morbid, it is by far the best part of the book, which is otherwise devoted to a soporific account of the family genealogy. Death watches can be questioned on grounds of taste, but it is certainly true that Willie Maugham did not die well...