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This book, though at times tedious, heaps a hillock of fresh laurels on Balzac's grave. André Maurois, an old hand at literary biographies (Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Dumas, Hugo, Proust), disavows that intention. "This is a life of Balzac, not a critical study," he says in a foreword and, having passed his 80th year, announces that it is the last biography he will write. Nevertheless, Prometheus is strewn with the kind of judgments that a disciple makes at the feet of the master: "A super-novelist," "the greatest novelist of the century." Balzac's very faults become...
...mock exam? Their one-sided approach to every question eliminates any possibility of calling it an objective test, and identifies it as an honest statement of SDS's position. But since the SDS exam and the draft exam were often taken in rapid succession (the counter-exam during the tedious hour of waiting before the draft test) the link between the two became more obvious. The mock-exam seemed to be saying, "Concentrate on some of the pertinent questions about the war that we pose instead of sitting here docilely, avoiding the issue by answering absurd Selective Service questions which...
With no clues, how can the police solve a string of burglaries committed by a professional who is never caught in the act? Not by fingerprints, wristwatch radios and brilliant deduction. What it takes is tedious, routine police work-hiring informers, watching known burglars, and questioning suspicious persons. Even then, a prime suspect may not confess and "clear the books" of all those unsolved burglaries until he is offered a deal, such as concurrent sentences equaling the rap for just one burglary. "Despite modern advances in the technology of crime detection," summed up the late Justice Felix Frankfurter, "offenses frequently...
Deakin and Storry have done an admirable job in fitting together the bits and pieces in the Sorge case, and in doing so provide an engrossing study of the tedious side of spying. Spy-thriller fans should be warned, however, that the book is too densely packed with scholarly detail to be fast-moving and exciting; it bristles not with action but with footnotes...
...rate and can be used to train new employees and set up the complicated electronics system-in Bache's case, to 76 U.S. and 13 overseas cities-that brokerage houses need to flash quotations and service customers. Incorporation also makes it possible to bring along younger executives without tedious diplomatic negotiations among aging partners...