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...impossible hour, admittedly, but not devoid of its virtues: H.M. Jones is offering what is probably the last year of his epic Hum 133a (Thought and Literature in the Nineteenth Century) which marshals, among others. Pere Goriot, Wuthering Heights, Sartor Resartus, Bleak House, Faust, and The Red and the Black into a tidy and orderly cultural unity. Professor Myron Gilmore, the hour's other virtue, presents three disunited centuries (roughly, 1300-1600) in an even stiffer course, his History 130: "The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation." Devious Machiavelli and the sainted Thomas More top the reading list...
...Jones, Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, David Copperfield, Le Pere Goriot, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace...
When "Madame Bovarv", the "Egolst", "Pere Goriot" can be treated adequately in fifteen minutes the world will have grown so avil speed that no alternative to this writing of radio povelettes will be allowed the author. Until then it is evident that the aspirant for real literary honors must strive for something more than can be crowded into fifteen minutes and stuffed into the ears of people waiting in bear stock reports or the best jazz hand...