Word: rereadability
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...constantly reread the history of the case and I always hope that the Supreme Court will side with Justice Douglas and review the whole thing. But it never happens that way." The speaker is Michael Meeropol. Originally his name was Michael Rosenberg. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were electrocuted when he was ten years old. Their crime, according to Judge Irving R. Kaufman who sentenced them to death, was nothing less than helping to precipitate the Korean War, thus causing over 50,000 American lives to be lost, and "altering the course of history to the disadvantage of our country...
...student of Congress since his days as a Harvard undergraduate and author of a book about the House of Representatives (Forge of Democracy, 1963), MacNeil covered Capitol Hill for United Press for eight years before joining TIME in 1958. To supplement his reporting, MacNeil reread accounts of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in his personal congressional library of 6,000 volumes - no fewer than 65 of them deal with impeachment - that he has painstakingly collected over the years. "But there is no substitute for eyeball-to-eyeball discussion," he says. "If you try to guess what...
...part of the conversation was not wanted by the Special Prosecutor. Asked Judge Sirica solemnly: "Didn't you think it was important to tell everything you knew?" Replied Miss Woods: "I can only say that I am dreadfully sorry." Sirica ordered that her earlier denials of any mistake be reread from the record. After hearing them she said: "I can only say again, I did work very hard over the whole weekend. Sure, I sounded a little cocky there ... I can offer no excuse...
...mystery that the editing was not all that extensive. For instance, certain secondary characters are less strongly emphasized in Sartoris. Their illumination in Flags neither detracts nor adds to the work as a whole. Faulkner is so easy to read and reread, that the few new twists to Flags in the Dust might just as well be so many new spices in an already hot-spiced chicken gumbo, doing nothing for its flavor...
...associations with Alcott's works then, strictly in the context of childhood and safety, make a dispassionate return to her work difficult. If you reread them with any other purpose than to find a safe passage back to a neutral world, you are disappointed. A serious re-reading usually finds the plot as soppy as Love Story and the once beloved characters about as interesting as Pollyanna...