Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machines in Manhattan sorted out the answers. The completed TIME study will be published in book form in the fall; not until then will college graduates named Adams or Zabrisky be able to compare themselves with the Farbsteins, Farleys and Farmers. But by last week Hubert Kay, author of the forthcoming study, had this much to report...
Commented Author Kay last week: "Most college graduates, I suppose, remember their classmates as being all kinds: bright and not-so-bright, conscientious and lazy, rich & poor, cynical and idealistic, sophisticated and naive. But we have discovered in this survey that college graduates are actually a surprisingly homogeneous group...
...author, who signs himself "One of Them," claims to be a scientist who has worked on a military project...
...bestselling World Geography by Geologist John Hodgdon Bradley. Texas, which would use 10,000 copies of the book, had objected to some of the nice things Bradley (an exmarine) had to say about Russia, when he wrote the book in 1945. The new World Geography for Texas, with the author's consent, would call Russia the "biggest" instead of the "greatest" nation in Europe, reduce the Soviet government's achievements from "mighty" to "considerable," downgrade Russia's claim to warm-water Baltic ports from "desperately" to "very much needed...
...again this is a touching little story; but ultimately it is wrecked by Miller's longtime habit of trying to hang too heavy a meaning on too slender a frame. The virtues of economy and precision seem to have dawned on the author too late. Henry Miller's contribution, if any, to 20th Century writing may be that he often illustrates the fatal distance between "self-expression" and the hard discipline...