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...story could also stand some simple blue-pencil tightening. But it is still the best short story this reviewer has read in the Advocate in a long time...
Soldiers' letters to us showed grave concern with "what people back home think." Scrawled in pencil across odd bits of notepaper, these letters bore the urgency of men at war. "The subject," wrote one sergeant, "is too grim to permit delay...
Hanslick knew what he liked, and could tell why. He admired Clara Schumann because her playing "is a most truthful representation of magnificent compositions, but not an outpouring of a magnificent personality . . . Everything is distinct, clear, sharp as a pencil sketch." But if Hanslick had never written a word about any other musician, his place in musical history would still be secure as the sharpest thorn in the sensitive flesh of Richard Wagner...
Some of them were the sort he has been working on for years: textbook-like studies of nerves, bones and blood vessels Others, more recent, turned heads into wire latticework. Done in colored pencil on dark paper, they achieved effects of transparency, roundness and motion in neat, linear arabesques. To Tchelitchew they were not just plays in a clever game but 'work, work, work...
...brain works in much the same way. It needs to know continuously what an "effector," e.g., an arm or a leg, is doing. In certain nervous disorders it does not get this information. Then such a simple action as picking up a pencil becomes almost impossible. The patient's hand oscillates wildly like the rudder of a zigzagging ship...