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Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is "sheer nonsense," opined Author Rebecca West. For one thing, young girls in love do not go to their first balls in a "state of lust" like hussars, she argued. The occasion: a 75th anniversary poll by London's Times Literary Supplement of 43 writers, artists and scholars who were asked to name the 20th century authors or books they consider the most overrated-or underrated. Arnold Toynbee and E.M. Forster, it seems, have the most inflated reputations. In addition to Forster, Anthony Burgess cited Andre Gide and Hermann Hesse. J.K. Galbraith called Ring...
...biggest disappointments of the Roxbury/Harvard project is that slightly over half of Roxbury's teachers remain uninvolved with the inservice workshops and apparently uninterested in the project. Banton argues that until the project involves the faculty, it can only supplement Roxbury education--it can't really change...
...Brady asked him if he could use the story. Reeves refused. After a frantic search, Brady settled on a piece by Syndicated Columnist Nick Thimmesch, describing how John Ehrlichman spent his last days before jail, which had already run in part in Potomac, the Washington Post's Sunday supplement...
...sooner had the last volume been issued in 1928 than the editors conscientiously began to work on a one-volume supplement, which was published in 1933. Now they are beavering away on a four-part, 50,000-entry supplement to the supplement, and they have just come out with Volume II, which takes the ever-changing language from H for "Haarlem" (a blue pigment containing alumina) through N for "Nzima" (an African language spoken in Ghana...
Many of the entries are borrowed from U.S. minority groups (such as the Yiddish "kvetch" and the Spanish "machismo"), causing Supplement Editor R.W. Burchfield to fear that the Queen's English will become all but incomprehensible with the invasion of "late Mayflower" Americanese. Nonetheless, three of his 30 staffers are now scouring the byways of the American landscape for new words to put into Volume III. By the time they reach the Zs it will be 1982, and the supplement to the supplement will undoubtedly need updating...