Word: essayish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reading & Riding. Jackson reviews five books a week in his daily Chronicle column; he also edits the Sunday book page. His reviews are calm, clear, essayish. He reads the books commuting to & from his home near the University of California campus in Berkeley, and in bed before going to sleep. (He is careful to vary his schedule of commuting trains so that acquaintances will not interrupt his reading.) Youthful-looking, smooth-featured, with clear blue eyes and invariably wrinkled clothes, he has a perpetual air of urbanity, never loses his temper or tells people stories they have heard before...
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