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...respectful acclaim. Because she was then a philosophy don at Oxford, nobody seemed overly concerned about whether her fiction writing was good or bad; as with Dr. Johnson's famous walking dog, there was only a happy wonderment that she did it at all. Because her prose was lucid, and sometimes even poetic, it was assumed that she deliberately kept her meanings opaque, and she was credited with a sense of mysticism. Because her characters usually were unbelievably outrageous, she was credited with a gift for satire...
...after the continuing search for further uses or undesirable side effects has been completed. But even now, says the confident Laborit, "it would seem that one could say without being too optimistic, that pain in all its forms will be called upon to disappear while the patient maintains perfectly lucid consciousness. The pains of childbirth, the pains of dentistry, the pains of cancer-all should vanish from human life...
Little had really changed since the end of the Printers' disastrous strike two years ago. After that one, Abe Raskin of the New York Times Editorial Board wrote a long, lucid account of the strike in which he took both publishers and unions to task for their crammed and churlish attitude toward each other. In the Times last week, as well as in the Reporter, Raskin gave a repeat performance-chastising his own employers as well as the unions...
Many a message does not get through simply because of obscure writing. The literary quality of State Department reports drove that lover of lucid language, John Kennedy, to distraction. A few ambassadors, it is true, are notable for their style, among them Ambassador to Britain David Bruce, Ambassador to Laos William Sullivan, and Ambassador to Kenya Attwood. "Their reports are so good," says a member of the Policy Planning Council, "that people in the State Department look forward to reading them, and pass their cables around. As you would expect, their reports get action commensurate with the attention they...
Glinting Images. Hesse's hero is obviously himself: the son of a devout and prosperous burgher who in childhood encounters a strange companion named Max Demian. Demian is a boy, but he has "the face of a man, superior and purposeful, lucid and calm, with knowing eyes. Yet the face had something feminine about it too, and was somehow a thousand years old. He was different, like an animal or a spirit or a picture, unimaginably different from the rest...