Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something happened this morning, though, that made me change my mind forever: I read your cover story on air pollution [Jan. 27]. Then I went to the door and opened it. The turbulent air was clean and bracing, and the snow that had fallen a week ago was still white and clean...
...Richard J. Herrnstien, professor of Psychology. He is an experimental psychologist who first demonstrated the ability of pigeons to read photographs...
...trick of office consensus, if only to keep the trains moving. Twice he was sent to China as a railways adviser during the Japanese war there, and during World War II served as director of a motor pool. He also contracted a serious case of typhus, and while recuperating read an article on the passivity of the Asian masses by U.S. Author Pearl Buck that changed his way of thinking. "Reviewing the past of Japan," he says, "I felt there had been something essentially wrong about our approach to government. It was vitally important for me to know just what...
...Vivien will ask a simple question, such as "Where shall I put the bookcases?" Whereupon Pinter, she says, "makes a long theatrical pause," and finally announces, "Against the wall." Their common preoccupation is their nine-year-old son Daniel, who has not seen Daddy's plays but has read Homecoming-to what effect...
...novel's title is an allusion to Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge,* which Barney read at 14. At 40, he now admits that "nothing stayed with me but the title." And James quickly makes clear that he is no Lewis-style caricature of a Babbitt businessman. As the head of a New England wood-products factory, he has a fierce and principled pride in the quality of what he makes and in the dignity of the men who work for him. His resources as a human being are as varied as the generation...