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...Friday afternoons he meets with Senior Editor Jack Tibby, Books Researcher Mary Ellin Berlin, and TIME'S three other reviewers : Theodore E. Kalem, Irving Howe and Henry Bradford Darrach Jr. ( A fifth reviewer is ex-TiME Writer Nigel Dennis, now living in England.) Gissen gives a thumbnail outline of each of the books he has scanned, and the week's assignments are handed...
...essay on "Light in August" being especially noteworthy. An extended review of "Requiem for a Nun" by Albert Guerard seems to me the best that has appeared. Along other things, Guerard's passing reference to "Temple Drake's tragedy (which is that she is Temple Drake)" is a classic thumbnail sketch of the bitch-heroine...
...feature of Open's policies is its policy of open recruiting of all students. A battery of giant IBM sorting and filing machines whirr night and day in an attempt to improve the Open student body and make it even more well-rounded. The IBM's spew forth a thumbnail description of a worthy undergraduate every seven and one half minutes. Armed with this information, the Open recruiters converge on the area (the machines always specify an area, though not the name) and sift the local high school youth for the man who mostly nearly approximates the IBM ideal. Once...
...must rise in wrathful indignation against a [sentence] in your thumbnail sketch of V.M.I. [TIME, May 28] . . . The day does not begin officially with breakfast at 7 a.m. but with a grim reveille formation in an earlier darkness . . . Waiting until the last split second to make reveille, "old" cadets jam through the arches and leap out of first floor windows...
With such thumbnail plot summaries, a 56-year-old disc jockey named Reuben Bradford is selling opera to Texans. On Dallas' station WFAA, his Opera Once Over Lightly is beamed directly at "the taxi-driver who likes Figaro, but doesn't know...