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Cummings' fame rests on such books as Eimi and The Enormous Room and volumes of poetry written with the freakish punctuation and typography that have become his trademark. His sunny, splashy little portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes are all done with slapdash delight; they have none of the sharpness or strangeness that make his books memorable, infuriating or a bore. Compared with his writings, Cummings' art seems as soft and wholesome as fresh butter...
...History. Both made contributions-local studies and biographies-to that vast unread library of India which hundreds of Englishmen, have written for two centuries. As the years passed, they noted that a new Indian history was growing under their eyes. The slapdash, casual rule of the old East India Company "nabobs" was being tightened into the more efficient but far more inflexible system of imperial government. India was dividing into two worlds-that of the alien ruler and that of the native ruled; and day by day it grew more difficult for men like Henry to "belong to both...
...Eddie Bracken took a slapdash poll. The comedian called 30 random telephone numbers, asked: "Did you listen to the Eddie Bracken show last night?" Seven said that they had; two volunteered the sponsor's name. It was a surprising response, because 1) it topped the highest Hooperating the Bracken show ever had, and 2) the show went off the air six months...
Morison writes of naval action with crisp, unemotional sureness. At other times he is unforgivably slapdash. The Battle of the Atlantic is loaded with information, but stuffed rather than packed...
...forbidden "City of the Atomic Bomb" (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) looked the same last week as it had 14 months ago when its product smashed Hiroshima. Its slapdash houses were better painted, its hillbilly help more sophisticated. But MPs still patrolled its "perimeter." Scientists still bit their tongues in midsentence, lest a secret pop out, and the gigantic, hidden plants still ground out U-235. The chief business was still atomic...