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Mixed & Murderous. The Woman in White takes three-quarters of the space given to the four mystery novels in this collection. It kept Thackeray reading all through one night although Collins used neither professional sleuth nor police to unravel his chilly horrors. "In our own over-specialized, disintegrated times," notes Editor Maurice Richardson, "there are the rigid categories of detective story, thriller, and ghost story, with several subdivisions to each . . , but in the last century they could all be lumped together as Tales of Mystery and Imagination." Along with The Woman in White in Editor Richardson's omnibus...
...freshman in 1915 I was greatly perplexed by Muensterberg's thickly accented Germanic lectures in Psychology A. I puzzled over his worry as to whether 'zee post was zere or not zere'...I think my addiction to psychology since that time is due in part to my determination to unravel the Muensterbergian puzzles. I can't say I've solved them...
Even readers who stick with Author Cahill to the end will never unravel the whole mystery of what happened to Professor Teigne, but they will get 200,000 words-now stimulating, now baffling-about Chinese art, philosophy, politics and paradox, mixed in with gang fights, raids, a U.S. hero and heroine and hissing Japanese spies. Novelist Cahill's polar north lies somewhere between André Malraux's Man's Fate and Cartoonist Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, but lacks the invigorating climate of either...
Sylvanus G. Morley of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who has worked in the Maya country for 40 years, is the man who discovered some of its most famous monuments and directed Carnegie's elaborate restorations in Yucatan. Even he cannot unravel all the tangles of the Maya past, but this patient, expert, profusely illustrated book is by far the best general survey of the mystery as a whole: who were the ancient Maya, how did their civilization arise, why did it fall...
...Presidential candidate. In U.N., however, the debate takes place in front of you among the members of the eleven-man Security Council. A transcript of it is available at the close of each session. What counts is the research and background and the expert knowledge which, together, can unravel the economic and diplomatic snarls of each week's meeting and present them to you as a clear, integrated, dramatic story...