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...authors omit an explanation of why anyone would want to acquire style. It must seem very obvious to them, or very embarrassing. The answer is, of course, that this is a book for those with no substance to their lives--nothing interesting to fill up their empty, boring days. The implication is that once you have style, you will become fulfilled, and those dull, empty days, like the dirt spots in the yard, will become lush and full...
...small writing? Big things--violence, love, sex, alienation. Little things--fawns, pine trees, letters that arrive in the mail. The latter are the province of those who read Elements of Style, the former the stuff of most who ignore it. How can you talk baout nuclear war and omit needless words...
...never endorsed any political line, and although his '40s antiFascism is a matter of record, Canetti is neither a NATO hardliner nor an Iron Curtain apologist: his Nobel cannot be totted on either Scoreboard in the East-West propa ganda Olympics. Canetti embodies a more important quality often omit ted in the literature committee's global approach. He is a major writ er, gifted with a unique talent and an original, if sometimes grisly humanism...
ITHACA. N.Y.--Mobil Corporation has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to omit a Cornell Corporate Responsibility Froject (CCRP) shareholder resolution from its annual meeting statement...
Once again, Sadat came out forcefully against the inclusion of Jordan in any resumption of Palestinian autonomy talks. And though the Venice declaration called for the "association" of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Middle East negotiations, Sadat pointedly omit ted any mention of the P.L.O., a possible signal to the Europeans not to insist on P.L.O. involvement, at least not until a later stage...