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Clarity & Point. The secret of Sylvia Porter's success is that she writes of complex financial matters in terms that Everyman can understand, shuns the jargon of the financial specialist (which many a businessman-though loath to admit it-does not understand too well himself). She constantly redefines technical terms, turns complex concepts into housewifely images. "I write for a faceless image of myself," says she. "I figure if I'm interested in a subject, other people will...
...death of Sanch Mejullas before, and traces of the New York experience can be found in the tragedies, especially Blood Wedding, but by and large Lorca did take up the old forms again. Some critics in this country and in Europe, especially those still plugging for the surrealists, are loath to admit this...
...contact with a Soviet Embassy man attached to a local consulate. Shortly thereafter, on being prodded to supply details, he said in fact that only one man had been approached, namely himself, and that the intermediary had been a "Professor X." He told the security officer that he was loath to reveal the name of the professor because it would get him into trouble (Chevalier was a French national, apparently interested in securing American citizenship) even though he was certain, on the basis of his knowledge of the man's character, that he had intended nothing improper...
...Blanckenhagen has through a combination of desire and circumstance begun his teaching career comparatively recently. He entered Hamburg University in 1929 and transferred to Berlin in 1930. Thence he went to Rome for independent study and research, receiving his doctorate from Munich in 1936. As a humanist, he was loath to begin an academic career under the Nazis. His first academic position, as a non-teaching fellow, was with the University of Marburg in 1941, from whence he was appointed to the faculty of Hamburg University in 1946. From 1947 to 1949 he was a visiting lecturer at the University...
Ordinarily I am loath to call your attention to errors in quotes. If you spell our names and list our college classes correctly, most of us are content to leave the rest more-or-less up to you. But since the publication of your fascinating article on Freshman Advising our office has been besieged by students pleading thirst and overwork, like so many crosses between Oliver Twist and the Ancient Mariner...