Word: unreadability
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Afterwards, Sulzberger put the still-unread portion of the Times on a tilted rack next to his breakfast tray and skimmed through it as he had his bacon & eggs. Now & then he paused to tear out a picture, a story, or a headline, or to circle a word with a red pencil. Done with breakfast and looking over the Times, solicitous Reader Sulzberger donned an expensively tailored grey suit, slipped his neatly folded clippings into his pocket, went downstairs, and in his chauffeurdriven Packard headed for the office. The office is the New York Times, where Arthur Hays Sulzberger...
...trouble with classics is that they are unread, and often thought to be unreadable. Somerset Maugham thought he could fix that. He had picked "the ten greatest novels."* But he wasn't satisfied with just picking them. Mr. Maugham, blurbed the John C. Winston Co., thought "that the classics would be more widely read ... if they were not too long or too slow in tempo." He pepped things up "by deleting long wearisome passages...
...reasonably wonder why they never heard of him before. De Forest was a Connecticut Yankee who married a Charleston girl and raised and captained a Connecticut company throughout the Civil War. His war novel, Miss Ravenel's Conversion (TIME, Aug. 21, 1939)> a failure when first published, went unread for nearly 72 years. His personal story of the Civil War, A Volunteer's Adventures (TIME, July 22, 1946), was published for the first time two years ago. Now it appears that there are still more first-rate De Forest works to be read...
...History. Both made contributions-local studies and biographies-to that vast unread library of India which hundreds of Englishmen, have written for two centuries. As the years passed, they noted that a new Indian history was growing under their eyes. The slapdash, casual rule of the old East India Company "nabobs" was being tightened into the more efficient but far more inflexible system of imperial government. India was dividing into two worlds-that of the alien ruler and that of the native ruled; and day by day it grew more difficult for men like Henry to "belong to both...
...Arab letters, dared to teach Shaw's Saint Joan, he was assailed by Al Azhar's Senatus. (In the play, a character denounces Mohamed and his "dupes.") Rioting Al Azharites forced Taha Hussein to resign, the fuss broke up an Egyptian cabinet, and Shaw now goes unread...