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...other parts of the body. Thermography, which measures the heat radiated by tumorous tissue, and conventional X rays can help in early detection. Now a new refinement of an old technique promises to allow the spotting and treatment of breast cancer when it is no larger than a pencil point...
...Pair of Shoes by Aline Glasgow. Pictures by Symeon Shimin. Unpaged. Dial. $4.95. A spare parable about poverty in a family of Polish Jews that turns upon who gets to use its only pair of shoes. With fine pencil and wash pictures, it briefly reaches a rare moment of emotional power and wisdom...
...Paul Klee's Collection of Signs. Southerly which illustrate the inventive variety of the ways two lines can be crossed to indicate a direction. Many of the signs bleed their black edges into the watercolor of yellow and orange warmth. Matta, represented here by a large crayon and pencil drawing from 1939, brings into view the biomorphic qualities of his surrealism...
Pound's marginalia, scribbled, indeed, with a stumpy pencil, mark the trail of an editor with a fine merciless eye for padding, preciosity or false prosody: "3 lines Too tum-pum at a stretch," one scribble reads. With the notation "1880," Pound skewered an anachronism in which Eliot called for "a closed carriage" in 1922; the carriage promptly became a "closed car at four." W.H. Auden once observed that Eliot was part church warden, part twelve-year-old boy. Pound was on the side of the boy. His objections to Eliot's frequent use of "may" and "perhaps...
...make room for a cup of coffee." For other stories he doesn't stop to comment but lets his subject give the punchline. In "A High Building In Singapore" the hero is walking down an unspecified San Francisco street watching his "mind functioning with the efficiency of a liquid pencil." He sees a "little girl who is really too small to be able to talk" but who's excitedly talking to her mother anyway. When he is close enough he finally overhears her say enthusiastically, "Yes, it was a high building in Singapore...