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Unseen Before. De Gaulle ticked off figures: national revenue up 5%, per capita income up 4% after investments, 325,000 housing units built, 520,000 places provided for new students in schools. It was not all roses, for inflation was rising (see WORLD BUSINESS), and industrial progress was slowing slightly...
The fall issue of The Current, published by the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Club, is a carefully put together magazine, and the writing is anything but illiterate. It has, however, an undue fondness for the ponderous sentence, the indirect statement, the complicated construction, and the rhetorical question, which makes it very...
The Age of the Scholar is certainly not an easy book to read. It consists of a selection of speeches Pusey has made as President of Harvard, chronologically arranged. Pusey's speech-writing style, particularly in the early speeches is, at the least, difficult. The writing improves in some of...
There are two versions of the same story about artistic talent going stale in youthful marriage, several reworkings of the theme that radio and telephone systems are the apparatus of loneliness. More childhood memoirs than one would wish end with rhetorical queries to the Infinite. The collection's showpiece...
Gold's first story, A Change of Air, appeared in the Columbia Review ten years ago. Its material was a little special: it concerned the statutory rape, 160 times during 70 hours by a total of 53 persons ("the entire membership of the Werewolves, their younger brothers and friends...