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...more direct route to a thumbnail sketch of icebergs, the reader merely finds the listing "Icebergs" in the alphabetized ten-volume Micropaedia, a fact finder's treasury of 102,214 short articles, none more than 750 words long and most much shorter. Because all the information for the Micropaedia is stored in computers, it will be easier to update than material in earlier editions...
...biographical approach is exciting. Relying on a thorough investigation of meticulously collected documents, letters, unpublished manuscripts, and personal accounts, the MacKenzies have set out to sketch in detail the growth and development of Wells's ideas. The man behind the ideas is sometimes obscured, but in many cases his overpowering, prolific writings justify the technique, just as their raw energy and wide scope sometimes dwarfed Wells himself in his own day. At times, however, this is slightly annoying--if not downright disconcerting. Wells, after all, led a colorful life, as a pulp-writer, a man of letters, a radical politician...
This book, a beautifully illustrated historical sketch of the U.S., was made from materials gathered for his much praised 13-part TV series done for the BBC and Time-Life Films: America: A Personal History of the United States. The author's knowledge and his generosity of spirit are evident throughout...
Kafka has inspired much fiction and literary criticism. In a recent issue of American Review (No. 17), Philip Roth contributed a compassionate sketch of Kafka that - yes - metamorphosed into an autobiographical fantasy. Roth imagined that Kafka did not die of tuberculosis in 1924 at 41, but emigrated to New Jersey where he became Roth's Hebrew-school teacher and suitor of his maiden aunt...
Their spouses (Cynthia Harris and Andrew Duncan) are more hang-backish - or hung-uppish. But it is Lynne Lipton who precipitates the movie's sketch-sized dramatic crisis. How, she inquires, can she have an affair with a man whose wife has been such a good sport about losing at strip hide-and-go-seek? Ciardi sulks, then has a mystical experience in which one of the heavenly host informs him that, up there, adultery ranks with crimes like parking in a loading zone. Thus reassured, the couple almost manages to do the fashionable thing - only to be defeated...