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...comfortably be classified as just a mud-dauber. As a vice president, presumably he can make perfectly good, understandable sense any time he feels like it. When he writes poetry, however-as he has been doing, after hours, for some 45 years-apparently he feels no compulsion to be lucid; or else he feels that what he wants to say cannot possibly be said clearly. By him, at any rate...
...Your article on dianetics is on the whole a capable and lucid job of reporting on a topic of great significance. It is somewhat unfortunate, however, that . . . the specter of hypnotism was allowed to rear its ugly head in your article-when you neglect to state specifically that precise and positive precautions are always taken in each dianetic therapy session to prevent the patient from slipping even accidentally into a trance...
...visitors were not taking 37-year-old Composer Dello Joio entirely on faith. The lucid, lyrical music of his 30-odd choral works, chamber pieces and ballet scores has already won him two Guggenheim fellowships and the New York Music Critics Circle Award for 1948-49. He had hit on the idea for his opera after seeing the movie Joan of Arc, thought he could supply what the movie had largely left out: Joan's "inner life...
William Wheeling's new translation is a lucid and humorous one, and very seldom do the intricacies of Beaumarchais' plot confuse. Here, at last, is hearty explanation of what all the singing is about in the operatic version of "The Marriage of Figaro...
...Your lucid "The Price of Health: Two Ways to Pay It" [TIME, Feb. 20] left room for a third . . . It's usually not the doctor bill, but the heavy hospital expense that sends a patient scurrying to the nearest loan office...