Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when I opened up and read your last letter...
This turnabout in attitude stems from the ubiquity of the guides. "When I was in college, you had to hide in the toilet to read those things," recalls Jane Ferrar, wife of a Columbia English instructor, and a freelance writer of trots under the nom de plume of Jane Wexford. But students now carry them everywhere, college bookstores display them, and 15 million are sold annually. "As long as students will use study guides," argues Beebe now, "we may as well do our best to make sure that they are using good guides that are carefully prepared, accurate and thorough...
Beyond the Teacher. Another scholarly convert to trots is Dante Expert Aldo Bernardo, humanities chairman of S.U.N.Y.'s Binghamton campus, who once considered it criminal to read The Divine Comedy in anything but the original. "If the kids have to be exposed to an interpretation of this stuff," he explains now, "it had just as well be mine." Actually, as Beebe sees it, some of the opposition has come from teachers' fear that the guides "may put into the hands of the students more information about a given work than the teacher knows himself." Since many...
...scavenging genius of the American instinct runs deep: use anything, adapt everything goes the rule, whether it is castles from the Rhine or old British ocean liners. A case in point is Mrs. Florence Barry, 57, owner of a Manhattan thrift shop called Encore. No sooner did she read in the newspaper that the Paris police force was about to discard its famed capes for raglan-sleeved overcoats than she decided that police capes were just the thing for her customers...
...secret of staying awake through A Change of Skin, the fifth novel by Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, is to approach it as if it were a long, pretentious art movie. It should be read passively, with a relaxed eye toward its techniques, composition, shifts in style. And there should be frequent trips to the popcorn machine. A cheerful open-mindedness is essential because, for all its gothic appurtenances, the novel is a free-swinging romp, a virtuoso performance by an urbane writer who exuberantly deploys a variety of literary tricks-and then plays tricks on the tricks...