Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have long been a careful reader of the CRIMSON. I therefore have long known that it is, in accurate typesetting if not in content, clearly the superior of the otherwise august New York Times. Therefore, when I read my article, which I had entitled "The Radical Scholar and the Center for International Affairs," in your Friday issue. I found your typographical errors surprising and even incredible. Not only did you misprint several words but you changed them so much as to destroy the meaning of the sentences. Nor did you stop there, or rather you stopped all too soon...
...third paragraph, I said "but to many men like myself, one answer is clear." In the fifth paragraph I said "Only this combination will have the skill and the strength to outlast the repressions and resources of corporate America." The third paragraph of the second column should have read. "But the proportion of radicals to conventionals will be far smaller in any other durable institution." In the third paragraph from the (or rather your) conclusion, I said, "the test will not long be applied by the side that is rich only in fashion and fragmentation...
...creation of the musical, which, in such shows as West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof, has proved to be the only uniquely American contribution to world theater. But all this now belongs to the past, And so does Goldman's book. It is best to read it. remember, shudder, forget and move...
...Joris's observation is unusually wary and intense, perhaps because her creatures move in a society held rigid by theology where diabolism is as real as rock-a milieu not merely strange but very nearly incomprehensible to a mind formed in the 20th century. A modern student can read the documents-the witch-burners were articulate enough-but statistics and dry records are unlikely to convey to him any idea of the atmosphere that hangs for days, according to the author, in a town square after a witch has been burned. Is the smell, for instance, reassuring, since...
...love charms and poisons. The book's flat prose is curiously eloquent. "She was on the side of the executioners," the account says of a young girl, "as children always are." The author knows what the town square of Liège smelted like; she can read the minds of judges three centuries dead. Witchcraft lives, and so does the novel...