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Also included are thumbnail sketches (written with fluoroscopic understanding of the trade-union mind) of many of Dubinsky's predecessors and contemporaries. Tailor's Progress is one of the few readable books about labor, due in part to Stolberg's lifelong familiarity with his subject, in part to his clearly thought-out philosophic position (he was Harvard-trained under Professor Emeritus of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking), which strengthens his thinking without getting in the way of his writing, in part to a gift for phrase typified by Stolberg's famed comment...
I.L.G.W.U. can be sketched in terms of their thumbnail biographies...
From Cotton Mather to F. D. R. In Mainstream Hamilton Basso has a new character in a new scene. The character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages, Mainstream contains thumbnail biographical sketches that run in time from Cotton Mather to Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like...
These Are the Men takes news shots of the Nazi leaders howling their wares (in German) and puts into their mouths (in English) thumbnail autobiographies, each of which is a monstrous self-indictment. This shrewd cinema effect is muddled more than helped by a gifted but rhetorical commentary by Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas...
Opening with a greeting from George H. Chase '96, Dean of the University, the pamphlet offers a short course in the history of Harvard and its buildings, follows with a list of services, a guide-book section with a map, and ends in a thumbnail sketch of the various military groups contained in the University...