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...Admired Unread. As a sampler of vintage literature, Pritchett has excellent taste. These 32 brief essays (many of which have appeared in London's New Statesman and Nation) restore the grandeur of such unvisited landmarks of English fiction as Humphrey Clinker, Middlemarch, Heart of Midlothian, Edwin Drood. They reduce to scale some modern writers-Wells, Bennett, D. H. Lawrence-while adding to the dimensions of several continental Europeans and two Americans: Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane...
Rawhiding. Was John L. Lewis himself in any way responsible? He had seldom paid more than lip service to mine safety, and had let damning mine inspection reports go unread in his Washington headquarters. Though he was empowered to demand the closure of unsafe mines, he had never mentioned conditions at Centralia. The thought that he was in any way responsible apparently never crossed John Lewis's mind. Whoever else might be guilty, he was triumphantly, righteously innocent...
...hesitate to write to me, what ever your troubles. I shall probably throw your letters away unread, but you will have had all the fun of writing them, which is part of the cure. You will get the whole thing out of your system. And I shall have so much fun tearing them up that I shall probably feel better, too. In this way we shall all save our reason and between us build a fitter, happier, saner world to face the terrors of peace...
Rallying to her husband's defense, Mrs. Miller cried: "I still love Bob." In that case, asked a coarse, unread reporter, why had she been playing around with the late Dr. Lind? Her answer summed up the timeless dilemma of distraught ladies in fictional triangles: "That is one of the things you can't explain...
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table) wrote three novels which have been widely unread. They reflected the scientific interests of their author, a physician, teacher of anatomy at Harvard, dean of its Medical School. Recently a psychoanalyst made the suggestion that Holmes's novels were perhaps the most original and significant of all his works, establishing the wiry little Bostonian as the godfather of modern psychoanalysis. Holmes, he found, discovered the "unconscious" (sometimes called "subconscious") 25 years before Sigmund Freud...