Word: rereadings
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...class is required to reread chestnuts like The Scarlet Letter or Huckleberry Finn. But obscure writers like Rilke and Jose Luis Borges also get assigned. Robert Crunden has chosen ten books on Woodrow Wilson and the Victorian period to illustrate styles of historical writing for his Expository Writing...
...voracious, intellectual Jewish women. On circuit, he tries to sleep with the prettiest girl to show up at his readings: he nurses the hope that one of them will restore his own lost innocence. He has met such a one, and treasures a letter from her that he will reread when the awful wedding (at which his beard causes him to be mistaken for a rabbi) is finally over. After drunken humiliations in which he is literally stripped by his wife and two mistresses, he is left to sleep alone. He opens the letter that should have promised innocence...
...play repeatedly and attended several performances before he began blocking out the screenplay. With Anouilh's dialogue firmly in mind, he proceeded to invent the missing scenes. Only when he had rewritten it as a screenplay, bearing in mind the mobility and intimacy of the camera, did he reread the play "to see if I had eliminated anything that I should have kept." He found his most important change had been to take much that seemed "too cerebral and put it back in emotional terms." The result was a stunning, emotional mano a mano between...
...hand some 70 pages of current reporting from TIME correspondents covering the civil rights front and a wealth of other background from TIME'S library, the bulk of their material came from Faulkner's writings. In ten days of preparing for the story, Judson read or reread from cover to cover some 13 volumes of Faulkner's works...
...poetry, it too often loses its force in what Aldous Huxley called Aiken's "coloured mists" of sound. Reread today, Aiken seems a classic case of the experimental writer whose experiment is outmoded. He finds himself disconcertingly immured in some Smithsonian Institution of prose when he had aspired to the National Gallery, and viewed with respect only by those who remember that he was a pioneer in territory that has now been settled...