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Stripped to the Bone. The Weatherly that Mosbacher piloted last week was not the same sluggish boat that wound up ahead of only hapless Easterner in 1958. Her stern overhang had been lopped off; she had a new, flatter keel that was designed to point her mast higher (to take advantage of steadier breezes that blow well above the water), make her faster beating to windward. Racing boats are like racing cars-the lighter they are, the faster they are-and Weatherly was stripped to the bone. Halyard and lift winches were removed from the mast and fastened...
...Time of Your Life). At his best, when dealing with small boys, Armenian Americans, and poets without portfolio, he has won himself a modest but lasting place in our literature; at his worst, whenever he gets involved in Issues or Ideas (both with capital I's), he falls flatter than Bahgh-arch, the Armenian flat bread. There is a third capitalized I that has proved fatal to Saroyan: the plain, unsimple I of his boundless...
...presumably addressed to children who cannot yet, are about to, or can just about read. Are these colored noncomics for the first grade? Or are they to be regarded not as books at all, but as some kind of toy barely distinguishable from building blocks except that they are flatter and can be torn up? The economics of such kiddieware is impressive. One, a book written and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, is about a cute bat and offers 334 words for $2.95, which would be fair enough if the author-artist personally baby-sat with each small customer. "Bats...
MOST gift books are glossy of cover, bland of content, irreproachably expensive. They are intended to flatter rather than to instruct or entertain...
...English Bible. A translation of the New Testament from the original Greek by a committee of British scholars and stylists whose aim was to make the Scripture intelligible to moderns who find much of the 17th century King James version unintelligible. Inevitably flatter and occasionally banal, it is nevertheless smooth and lucid, casts new light on many an obscure passage...