Word: readers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Optimist Vannevar Bush: "I believe I said '10 to 15%,' and didn't specify the generation interval. At 10% and 30 years per generation [Reader McSweeney] wins hands down. At 15% and 23 years, I was about right.† At 15% and 20 years, the result is over a billion billion, which is much worse...
...compared to Reader McSweeney...
...Past is a gently idealized version of the Manhattan '20s; yet Author Norman writes so carefully of the quiet life of David Gerald, and follows his simple and unpretentious thoughts with such detached sympathy, that the portrait ends by being impressive. This, he seems to say to the reader, was all that the Greenwich Village-Paris rebellion, in most cases, amounted to; in retrospect, it was nice people living a sensible existence of good taste and moderate pleasures...
...Readers who know that it takes ships, planes, artillery and service troops to get the infantryman within range of a live target, may feel that Pratt has cheered the role of the foot soldier to the point of oversimplification. Actually he takes nothing away from the other arms; his peep-sight view merely assumes that their work had already been done. None of these sketches is exhaustive, but every one is readable, informal history that few armchair tacticians would wish to miss and few professional soldiers could fail to learn from. What will keep Eleven Generals and many a plain...
...Busy Reader. The essays in What Is Literature? include a long one on the situation of the writer in various epochs. Written with Sartre's characteristic energy and the faint overtones of sounder sense that he has acquired since World War II and the French resistance, it places his own writing in the same class with the work of André Malraux and Antoine de St. Exupéry-Frenchmen of action, compelled to do their work in a time of disintegrating values when any act had to be its own justification. Thus he seems to write an apologia...