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...Sorry to bother you, Mr. Such. Will Mr. Maxie be along...
...also frighten off readers who translate his lesson as: if you think you understand a poem, there is something wrong with you−or the poem. As a result, many a reader has felt that poetry was less a pleasure than a test, and decided not to bother with...
Repetitious talk did not bother Thompson; he was used to it. He was U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to Austria during the era of the futile 379 meetings before Khrushchev abruptly changed his mind and agreed to sign a peace treaty giving Austria its independence...
...drink business. How the public feels about bottles v. cans is hard to tell-obscured by the contradictory market surveys rolled out by the steelmakers and glassmakers. Loudest in favor of cans are supermarket operators, who find them easier to stack and are glad to be rid of the bother of taking back "empties." Small soft-drink bottlers, in general, prefer reusable glass-partly because they make less profit on canned drinks, and partly because they fear that the lower shipping costs of cans will make it possible for the major soft-drink brands to get along with fewer local...
...stand time on its head and cut capers-as Ionesco, Beckett and Gelber have done in the theater. Whatever results finally, readers at least can be grateful that Neo-Realism's Big Three have discarded as outworn one increasingly obnoxious habit of the standard novelists. They do not bother to describe sex in morbid detail. That alone, if it catches on, could set the novel ahead ten years...