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...about its author is that he has no talent. The contrast between the two stories is the contrast between Mr. Fodor's realism and Mr. Bluestone's realisticness. Thus in the latter we have an endless cast of characters who speak in a hodgepodge of scrupulously correct and scrupulously incorrect English which is characterized as "Jewish." These characters collect together at the funeral of an old lady and make dull remarks to each other; needless to say, nothing happens...
...which it appeared that the proper spelling of the name of the Tibetan village lying at the intersection of Lat. 27° 31' N and Long. 85° 14' E was Mendong Gomba, not Mendong Gompa, and that to call it Men-tung-Ssu was altogether incorrect...
...With my own hand I wrote it. The only thing that might be incorrect in that statement is the number of victims. For, since I wrote that letter, you have killed very many more people. Therefore, I say, only the number might be incorrect...
...incorrect, too, to say that the General Agreement adds up to more barter and bilateralism and, probably, to a reduced flow of goods. It is true that this Agreement, in itself, will not suffice to reconstruct economies disrupted by the war, nor to correct the serious imbalance that now characterizes world trade. For this, other measures are now being considered by the countries of Western Europe and by the Congress of the United States. Until reconstruction is really under way and the present imbalance in trade substantially reduced, a large measure of bilateralism and even of barter will undoubtedly persist...
Because of an incorrect date on the poster in the Union, late petitions can be filed at Thayer 46 until 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon by those desirous of public office who fell prey to the faulty information...