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...small plane to scout the areas he used, King had an especially sharp eye for spotting undiscovered talent and helped to launch careers for such stars as Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper, Jennifer Jones and Ronald Colman (whose dapper trademark mustache King first drew on the actor with a retouching pencil...
...Bond says he's sorry more people haven't experienced what he offers.Though the absolutely silent reading room (no pens allowed, only pencil's is usually in use he says."The Harvard faculty doesn't take as much advantage of the library as it might. Under graduates, however have wandered in with increasing regularity recently, he says, and now comprise about 15 percent of those who use facility...
...more reasonable objection to raising the retirement age is voiced by Harvard Economist William Hsiao. Says he: "Armchair professors and bureaucrats who sit behind desks pushing a pencil all day can work until age 68 without any serious difficulty," but manual workers are too worn out by physical labor to stay on the job that long. Others insist that many of the people who now retire at 62 do so less because of choice than because of failing health or inability to find another job if they are laid off in their early 60s. For those reasons, Pickle...
When authors gather to analyze critics, they frequently speak of pencil envy. The diagnosis hardly applies to Edel, a man with many distinguished books to his credit. If anything, he is a professional who knows how to cover his bets. He can argue the obvious: that literature is not a patient and he is no therapist. He can then go on to examine writers and their work along orthodox lines laid down by Viennese mind-science nearly a century ago. He is wary enough to disarm those who would argue that literary psychology diminishes its subject. The fact remains that...
...that telltale bit of evidence, we learn that Shawn believes that this book "may someday be looked back upon as a crucial event in the history of human thought." An editor in such awe of what his author and protege has produced is likely to wield a very light pencil. And it shows...