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...tell the review from the publisher's agent. . . I think that we ought to pay attention to the kind of letter I received recently from a younger creative writer. 'In books we have dignity enough,' he said, 'but the incalculable force of a Sunday Review is the soft drip that drives a man to the wall...
...this posthumous collection of some forty of Matthiessen's best reviews, the 'soft drip' of the blurb writer has been replaced by the professional literary critic's persistent hammering at values. There is also enough 'gritty detail' to drive many an author to the wall on the merits...
...said a squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping coal in short supply. "They don't want coal," said a bitter Italian. "For them, la mancanza fa la forza-power through shortage...
First he pulls the cardboard out of a shirt that has just come back from the laundry. Then he smears it over with a neutral color. After that he holds a brush above it and lets some house paint drip. Finally, he sprinkles the whole affair with gold or silver powder. The result: a series of Jackson Pollock-like abstractions, about as modern as modern can be. Renny's matter-of-fact name for them: "drip paintings...
...being eaten away, so he sent it to a friend at Boston University, who told him that he had a bacteriophage in the test tube. Soon, the friend began growing the germs and their sidekicks, the phages, in murky bottles. Dr. Lincoln used the extracted phage material to drip into the noses of patients with minor ailments, generally sinusitis...