Word: readers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poems suffer from the same lack of direction. In verse, of course, a poet can succeed by scratching just one image into your mind. But Signature's poets, possibly excepting Miss Benet, don't even do that. They simply fail to arouse, or to "make the reader care...
...Reader Sherman's guess is as good as TIME...
...failure of the Soviet Union to honor those agreements." His book is a flat, deadpan report on the eight-day trading session that embittered many a champion of "open covenants openly arrived at." It is the most complete report yet made and should be historically important, but many a reader will refuse to let Russian skulduggery take the whole rap for the Yaltese cross...
...pause and scratch his head. Not for long. When this happens, he merely makes his narrator say: "Here my cart begins to stick ... so clogged . . . that I shall have a troublesome task to drive the wheels ... by heaving and hauling at the spokes." At this, of course, the friendly reader unconsciously puts his own shoulder to Author Graves's mired wheel-and before you can say "White Goddess" the lusty, likable potboiler is bowling down the road again...
...Every Man a Penny is a determinedly kindly French cleric. Abbe Gaston's trouble was that he took Christ's teachings literally. In word, thought and deed he kept trying to walk in His steps, and kept getting his shins kicked for his pains. The reader meets him in his Paris parish in 1914 when he is 35 and hopeful, leaves him near-blind, buffeted but beatifically resigned just before Novelist Marshall lets his typewriter cool. In World War I he fights as an infantry soldier, becomes a wounded hero and learns the worldly lesson that glory lasts...