Word: readerly
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...desperately lonely upon returning to earth decades after the demise of everyone he knew. The writings attributed to him ring true. So do his poignant yearnings, not for literary immortality but for the sweet sleep of mortal oblivion. When Twain, again astride a comet's tail, rockets off, the reader may mourn his lively voice but cannot help wishing the world-weary writer godspeed. --By William A. Henry...
...miseries, the Pope and Cabbage Patch dolls now read like shots in the dark. Yet this and previous collections of the journalist's craft may one day enjoy new life. Buchwald's job is to repeat history as farce faster than one can say Karl Marx. To the patient reader, farce inevitably returns as nostalgia...
...that our criticism of Mark Reader, a political science professor at Arizona State University, was "trivial" and that he "is accused of taking too strong a stance against nuclear war." A.I.A. never made such a charge against Reader. It issued a lengthy report on Reader, which pointed out that he was spending a great deal of time in a course supposed to be devoted to political ideologies talking about his fears of all things nuclear, including the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. We said that he should either teach the course as advertised in the college catalog or the course...
...report that Accuracy in Academia criticized Professor Mark Reader for taking "too strong a stance against nuclear war." How can someone take "too strong a stance" against something as horrible as nuclear war? Michael Cavadias Santa Cruz, Calif...
...Stephen exhibits no outrage or deep sense of betrayal at having been an unwitting partisan in the cold war. He suggests that the iniquity lay not in CIA sponsorship but in that support's having been kept secret. The reader may wonder whether he is being evasive or naive: it is, after all, the agency's job to be secretive. Late in the journals, Spender traces the devolution of his political thinking, from innocence to idealism to resignation and concludes that "the world is run by a special race of monsters...