Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Constantly a reader, I continue not to subscribe since TIME is in every library I frequent...
...COPELAND READER-Chosen and edited by Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard University-Scribner...
...admire. The characters are presented in subjective flashes, bright, sensitive but jumbled; a psychological kaleidoscope. Speaking all their half-thoughts out loud, and many more of the author's, the mother coughs and booms, Daley sings, puppies whine, Clifford grumbles, Lena moans, a Chinaman squeaks, the doctor quacks . . . the reader de- spairs...
Marvin Is Reader...
...characters, with all the perplexing yet inevitable indirection of actual life. The versatility and incessant activity of Tietjen's mind-he is a mathematician, linguist and poet as well as a husband, lover, officer, sociologist and human being -do not contribute immediate lucidity to events which the reader must follow subjectively, by the impressionist method. A crucial telephone talk may last several chapters, the words actually spoken falling pages apart while numerous causes, consequences and chunks of mental and emotional background are tracked down in hurried asides. Yet such episodes, and much apparently meaningless detail-such as a sonnet...