Word: unreadability
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Three men got together in a tiny Manhattan studio this week to discuss a widely unread book. The occasion was CBS's long-run (15 years), longhair radio show Invitation to Learning. The three men: Critic John Mason Brown, Essayist Clifton Fadiman and Moderator Lyman Bryson...
...study undoubtedly creates a certain amount of tension, but hardly more than thinking about pages and pages of unread assignments. In any case, doctors' warnings about heavy reading do not prevent students from filling their suitcases with assigned books or asking their roommates to make the trek to Stillman. The Infirmary staff certainly can prevent very sick patients from reading without turning down the valuable service offered by PBH and requested by most patients. Brooks House and Stillman should arrange at once to resume the daily trips...
...difficulty keeping current. There are too many things to read, and not enough hours in the day . . . When a new issue of TIME arrives, he doesn't even crack it open for a peek. No sir. He just puts it in its proper place with the other unread issues that have piled up. and keeps right on plodding along with the copy he was engrossed in at the moment. In short, he's going to read his TIME chronologically...
...LEATHERSTOCKING SAGA, by James Fenimore Cooper, edited by Allan Nevins (833 pp.; Pantheon; $8.50). In a heroic effort to save one of his favorite authors from the oblivion of an unread classic. Columbia University's versatile Historian Allan Nevins has undertaken to streamline Fenimore Cooper for moderns. A lifelong Cooper fan who played make-believe Deerslayer as an Illinois farmboy, Nevins has taken the five Leatherstocking tales-The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into...
...important but helpless ideas are ineptly roughed up does not necessarily deserve to be read. Any book of Faulkner's no more deserves to be read than any books of Melville's. In short, why read bad books by good authors when there are so many good books left unread...