Word: readers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remedial Reading course, the eyes of the spectator are forced through the use of movies to follow the movements that a skillful reader's eyes would follow. The movie shows successive phrases flashed rapidly across and down the screen in such a way that the reader's eyes are involuntarily attracted to each group of words as it appears. Thus the student learns to read by phrases rather than single words...
...unwittingly placing Reader Johnson's salty uncle in such a difficult position, TIME apologizes to all hands, fines the news service which supplied a wrongly captioned photograph one tot of grog, herewith prints the picture (and the real Professor Morison) in full. Of TIME'S many boatmen, no small number have made it clear that Capitana is indeed a barkentine and not a ketch...
...Reader Funari...
...this second collection O'Hara has written his first Foreword, a modest, touchy acknowledgment of his pleasure in other people's short stories and in his own. Then there are 35 stories in which the reader meets, briefly but none too briefly, about twice that many strictly American heels. Some are heels because they are young and dumb, some because they are trapped and tired. Some are pure heels, like the prep schoolteacher who enjoys frightening a 13-year-old boy. The Hollywood heels are the worst, comprising several of O'Hara's most excruciating women...
Though sad, the stories do not make the reader cry; though funny, they do not make him laugh; cumulatively they make him nervous. The bare, observant technique draws attention to itself and to its occasional flaws (the story Trouble in 1949 hinges on an exchange of car keys for which the author makes no provision). Possibly two prides-the Irishman's and the craftsman's-conspire to allow O'Hara no ambitious flops. But readers who are not reporters will wonder how anyone can write so well and yet so rarely try to write better...