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...news. His red-rimmed eyes shone brightly through his glasses, grey hair poked out from under a battered fedora, and he needed a shave. Spotting a friend, Hunter, who is deaf, gave a high-pitched shout: "Any news, Bill?" Then Hunter handed him a scratch pad and a pencil. While Bill jotted down the news, Hunter read over his shoulder, now & then shouting fresh questions until he had pumped his informant...
...toughest critical yardsticks one can put alongside the modern short story is a two-word question: "so what?" A writer can blue-pencil his way to a clean precise style; if he can combine this with an ear for language and an eye for detail he can describe competently. But above all he must have something...
...redundant offerings." Teachers College of Columbia, for instance, gives no fewer than ten course; in Audio-Visual Education, with an eleventh in "Administering the Use of Audio-Visual Materials." Says Lynd: "There seems to be a transcendent mystique of administering anything in the schoo world more complex than a pencil...
...given him his peculiarly firm hold over the Socialist Party. He cannot be rushed. He cannot be stampeded by a flood of oratory. In the cabinet room of No. 10, even the most eloquent minister may find that during his choicest arguments Attlee has been deeply absorbed in some pencil design on the paper before him. It is maddening, but there is no penetrating this kind of defense. Attlee in his cool ivory tower quietly sorts out the pros & cons and comes to a decision in his own time...
...three of the five. . . .", he felt the panic as the three hours skidded by while he struggled to pump out answers from an empty mind. Vag breathed hard, clutched the book nervously, and wrote "Chapter 10" so hard at the top of his reading notes that he broke the pencil point. He plunged into the reading ". . . The clue to the architecture of the effect or patterns is the dominance relation between the stimulus and the conditioning environment. . . ." Vag reached in his pocket for another pencil to note this down; he didn't understand it, but it sounded like an important...