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...rest of her talents did not come together so readily. Hammett was crucial to her success. When she began writing plays, he typed them (in those days she was a $15-a-week manuscript reader; he was a famous author). He slaved over her first hit, The Children's Hour, giving her the plot, goading her to sharpen the language and making her exaggerated gambits more realistic. Meanwhile, his own fiction was languishing; weakened by drink and pulmonary disease, he published only one book, The Thin Man, after he met Hellman...
...bible-thumping reader of the New York Times, I've been forced to ruminate upon the pontificating of Frank Rich '71 with reference to the occasion of his 25th class reunion. In June 2023, at my 25th reunion, I hope that I would have more to say than to fondly remember our agitated youth and celebrate our class' current professional life. We are already jaded about the possibilities, already cynical about humanity. Perhaps we can bottom out now, realize our spiritual devastation and create anew...
...such cases, there is always a second reader. Many departments also employ advanced graduate students in the area to act as thesis readers...
...escape the notice of a modern reader that this overabundance of plot is appropriate to a Victorian novel, not merely to a tale set in Victorian times. So is the central puzzle, which involves not only the story of the naive young cleric but also the distinctly unusual relationship between snobbish Charlotte, the bishop's chilly daughter, and Rose, a lusty "pit girl," or woman miner. It should not be overlooked that Rose is the novel's title figure. Smith's ending is not quite a hanky dampener, but it does bend a hard tale of murder and mine disaster...
Though a lay reader may get lost amid the dense references--who knows the difference between Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin or the meaning of tohu-bohu?--the basic argument is clear. Each conquering faith must contend with the potent presence of its predecessors, and none have fully succeeded. Construction is ideology: building has always been employed, also unsuccessfully, to cement permanent ownership...