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...remain among the few novels of the depression still worth reading. He joined the staff of TIME in 1935, and began his researches in Hawthorne in 1939 when, at the beginning of the war in Europe, he picked up Hawthorne's Our Old Home and reread it "with a sense of wonder . . . at the close application of his insights" into England. The present book (the first volume of two) ends with the fame and. security that came to Hawthorne in 1850, when he was 45, on the publication of The Scarlet Letter...
...writer that George Macdonald was best known. His At the Back of the North Wind, and "Curdie" books for children, and such mythopoeic fantasies as The Wise Woman, Lilith and The Phantasies are still reread and remembered by those with a nostalgia for the turn-of-the-century world of nannies, nurseries and button boots. But it was Macdonald's Christian insight that made him great. Says Lewis: "Necessity made Macdonald a novelist, but few of his novels are good and none is very good...
...staff have taught 5,000 children and adults at the clinic. First comes diagnosis. The clinicians check to see whether eye trouble is to blame. Then an ophthalmograph photographs the student's eye movements as he reads: how often he pauses on a word or goes back to reread, whether he reads smoothly or in jerks. The clinic also runs the student through a barrage of speed, comprehension, vocabulary, intelligence and psychological tests, uncovers victims of emotional blocks (e.g., jealousy, insecurity) and "mixed dominance" (a brain twist that makes some people read...
After an hour of siting for pictures of the back of their heads, the students, including two Radcliffe girls, were given their reward: a few short scenes of them taking notes while one crew member reread the script...
...drives abruptly out of Author White's slim (131-page) book-one of the most lovable little boys (despite his mousiness) in literature. Stuart Little is a tale of few laughs and many smiles. Adults may read into it any meanings they like. Children will read and reread...