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...distinguished primarily for simple realism, a forthright, almost childlike honesty, a command of ordinary speech, a cool and effortless narrative style. The battle scenes are so vivid as to suggest 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 characters. They seem never to have known anything else...
Children report that using the electronic Academic American is both effortless and more fun than studying printed volumes. To look up the life of Winston Churchill, for example, a student first types in a few words to make contact with the computer and hook up to the encyclopedia service. He or she then begins an electronic search. If just the word Churchill is typed, a choice of eight items is given, from Churchill River in Newfoundland to Sir Winston. After selecting Sir Winston, the student is offered six sections of an article about different phases of Churchill's life...
...FACTS Any kind, butdo get them in. They are what we look for-- a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading: and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline from: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate", "Be specific"; etc? They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course be singularly relevant; but they must be there...
ROBERTSON DAVIES'S new book features a quintessential Jane Austen heroine. Miss Maria Magdalena Theotoky is every bit as articulate, independent and charming as Elizabeth Darcy And like Austen. Davies fuses a titillating, almost melodramatic plot with an effortless yet penetrating treatment of themes...
...homestead where they were born, find that it has been uprooted to make way for a wildlife preserve. In a nursing home, two elderly widows who are lifelong friends become estranged, then reconciled. Still, only the surface of these characters may be viewed as plain. In her seemingly effortless prose style, Munro has etched portraits of people living underground dramas of high intensity...