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...PETER TELLS ALL-AND TOO MUCH MORE. A nifty bedside skim, Diaries is 500 pages of tape-recorded daily entries, bleeding with triumph and futility...
...insist and insist again by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C- (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights...
Time's general acceptance and tidy layout, on the other had, legitimizes the nation's gossip. You can, after all, skim an item on Gary Coleman or Princess Di without fear of public humiliation when it's sandwiched between a cover story on nuclear awareness and a feature about the effect of home computers on education...
...thin line of cormorants skim the waves...
...practice what it has preached and legislated. When Justice O'Connor graduated from law school in 1952, the only job she was offered by major West Coast law firms was that of legal secretary. Now, if a firm wants the top of the law school class, it has to skim women along with men in the cream of the crop; 30.2% of 1981's graduates were women...