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Until the moment of revelation, in fact, Kamensky remains a pale figure, repeatedly upstaged by other characters and by Dame Rebecca herself, whose keen eye for detail alights frequently on the tableaux of fin-de-siecle Europe and the Byzantine complexities of expatriate Russian life...
...must have the median education for his job. Some will be able to hold the better jobs without the appropriate diploma. But the education of whites is increasing rapidly as well, and will not fall far short of the standards underlying the above figures so the competition will be keen...
...compliments on the informative, accurate, and very readable article explaining those Lilliputian giants-integrated circuits [Sept. 2]. As an electronics engineer working toward a doctorate in the field, I feel a very keen anticipation for the Dick Tracy wrist TV communicator and the domestic computerized control center in each home-both well within economic possibility because of those highly processed wafers of sand (silicon). You have removed part of the mystery that the general public feels surrounding the operation and fabrication of such unfathomably tiny circuits...
...good museum director must be a clever sleuth and a keen scholar, bold but tasteful, charlatan enough to fool his competitors, discreet in his dealings, a master charmer, a canny politician, greedy, and above all, always right in his purchases. Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, Sherman E. Lee of the Cleveland Museum of Art meets most elements of that prescription. Traveling 14,000 miles a year, he metaphorizes his annual buying foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately...
...protagonist comes to, first of all, is the noisy antiseptic indignity of life in a hospital ward. Patients are frenzied or conniving; doctors hearty and indifferent. Drifting in and out of fantasies, he plods a painful path from demi-death to limited life. Welch's perceptions are keen, and his imagery probes reality like a scalpel. A nurse's face "gained an unreal nutcracker severity from the curve and compression of her nose and lips. It was as if a heavy weight on her head had crumpled the features underneath." Railroad tracks, "like never-ending stilettos, seemed...