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...early paintings, done with a sharp, quizzical line that chirrups like a grasshopper in the Catalan dust, is a matter of detail and observation: getting the nose in and keeping it there. When he was working on one of his first great paintings, The Farm, a compendium of animal, vegetable and human life at Montroig, Miró even brought back some dried grasses from Catalonia to Paris to serve as a model. Ernest Hemingway, who bought the painting, later wrote, "It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when...
...term-paper scandal, in which hundreds of students bought papers from "term-paper factories"; the Chronicle reported that five schools (Boston College, Harvard, M.I.T., the University of Massachusetts and Northeastern University) took no action at all against the students involved. Last week the paper printed a thorough compendium of faculty salaries at more than 1,500 colleges and universities-a boon to potential job seekers in the current rush for fall openings...
...baby genius." From the age of three, "Clever Tom" was a compulsive reader whose idea of a wild childhood game was to act out Homer, reserving for himself the role of Achilles. At six, the future author of the five-volume History of England was at work on a compendium of world history...
This is an entertaining book to read, more of a curiosity than a valuable historical contribution, though it may be of some use as a handy compendium of Truman's sayings and anecdotes. Miller is a perceptive man and a good interviewer, and he was fortunate in having an extremely responsive subject. He had the chance to produce a unique and significant document and make an important inroad in the relatively new field of oral biography. He shouldn't have stopped short...
Christmas is a time when people reach for their Dickens, in their minds if not on their bookshelves. The prevailing sentiments of the season, after all, stem as much from Dickens' Scrooge and Bob Cratchit as from the Christian church or Macy's. Thus this compendium of material by and about England's greatest popular novelist is timely. Not too timely, though, for it is no glossy candy box of a book. Unillustrated and unpretentious, its value will endure many Christmases...