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...effortless sprint of Waugh's prose discovered a new region of perverse innocence unshadowed by any moral concepts whatever, it was clear that a new master of English satire had emerged...
...distinguished primarily for simple realism, a forthright, almost childlike honesty, a command of ordinary speech, a cool and effortless narrative style, quickened here & there with a mild, understated humor. The battle scenes are so vivid as to suggest Tolstoy's War and Peace, the common soldiers as clearly visualized as Tolstoy's peasants. Unlike Tolstoy's masterpiece, it is all war, not only in the sense that there are no scenes of peaceful life poised against the scenes of war, but in the sense that a knowledge of the meaning of peace is absent from the psychology...
Some information is more assimilable than other information. Facts, as Mark Twain noted, can be presented in such a way that they merely create "confusion of the mind and congestion of the ducts of thought." The reader's digestion of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics...
Paul Unruh, a six foot, four inch sophomore with a crew haircut and a hot hand, drew the applause of the 2600 spectators by his effortless ball handling and never-miss set shooting. He scored 21 points for the evening's high total. Unruh clicked off the first basket, and it was he who grabbed the ball off his own backboard at the final buzzer...
...part of the magazine is the poetry. Only Anne Tolstol's "Carmel" is free from banality and fuzziness. "The Neurotic" is overloaded with the cliches of modern poetry, while "Autumn," a quatrain, consists of what seems to be an inaccurate metaphor. "Carmel," a delicate landscape in verse, has an effortless meter, and is one of the most rewarding pieces recently seen in local publications...