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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This book is intended for average minds equally remote from genius which knows no obstacles, or from stupidity to which everything is an obstacle," says the author. How well he has gauged his readers is already demonstrated by the large sale and wide popularity of the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking, An Art | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Briefly, thinking is a series of images. Even the ignoramus has images, but he is either incapable of being aware of them or too lazy to seize them. The greatest difficulty of the average person, Author Dimnet thinks, lies in the sorting out of confusing or conflicting images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking, An Art | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Author Dimnet tells of the obstacles and the helps to thinking in a style that is as informal as it is polished and rich in literary background. One of his favorite devices is to hold thought-conversations between himself and his reader-of-the-moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking, An Art | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...similarity between this plot and hard-boiled Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is great but not suspicious. Ida A. R. Wylie, author of Children of Storm, The Mad Busman, has literary stature, would never stoop to pilfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twenty Mattresses | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Poor Richard will be on the night of March 22, 1929, not an anniversary of anything but, roughly speaking, the Sesquicentennial of B. Franklin's arrival in Paris. The play, by Playwright Louis Evan Shipman of Manhattan will be the first by a modern U.S. author ever presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Pauvre Richard | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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