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...talk was tougher than ever. His speeches were folksy but their well-hammered themes were fear and self-interest. The country would "go to the dogs" if a Republican administration was elected. He pictured the Republicans as tools of "the most reactionary elements . . . silent and cunning men," who would "skim the cream from our natural resources to satisfy their own greed," who would "tear the country apart." They were "bloodsuckers with offices in Wall Street. . . princes of privilege . . . plunderers...
...died of yellow fever in Surinam, his mother lived in Salem as a recluse; his uncle, Robert Manning, took charge of Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters, even writing invisibly, in skim milk-a trick that later seemed symbolic of some of his tales. His vivid older sister Elizabeth, who seemed the genius of the family, troubled his imagination. "His early stories," Cantwell observes, "deal often with the rather mortifying masculine experience of encountering women whose sexual experience is greater than...
Private Life. He and his wife have lived in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel for the last 18 years. After a day at the Capitol, he gets into a pair of old grey slacks, settles down to skim official reports, read history, or clip newspapers for his scrapbooks, tries to be in bed by 9 o'clock. He limits his drinking to one whiskey & soda before dinner, smokes only denicotinized cigars. In 1932, he was bothered by shortness of breath and pounding of his heart under exertion. Doctors diagnosed it as a "slow heart," but nothing organically wrong...
...amount of truth in this rebuttal, but the whole truth is that many, if not all students use essentially the tutoring school method of approaching examinations. They cram, they use outlines, they borrow their friends' reading notes, they look up old exams in order to spot questions, and they skim frantically over the reading at the eleventh hour. That they are not so successful as professionals in these methods merely indicates that they haven't the scientific approach of the professionals, not that they find the methods morally reprehensible. It can be argued that when a student...
This intensive cultivation makes it impossible to skim a "national" daily* like the Express or Daily Mail as you might glance through a big U.S. paper. There are too many items on a page, and a headline is craftily written less to tell the news than to lure the reader into the story. Having learned to condense, the press never intends to go back to "big" papers if it can help it. ("Big" was 24 pages; since British papers never depended on vast areas of display ads, they never had papers that Americans would call...