Word: wading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hitler's crimes still continues," a publisher recently complained. "Every year we have to wade through another biography about him!" Year after year the Hitler Welle, or "Hitler Wave," sweeps from Europe to the U.S., bearing book after book by aides and generals, resisters and reconstructed Nazis. Just as the jaded reader is about to shout "Hitler, go home!" along comes a study like this one. Massive, yet gracefully written, it is the best single volume available on the tortuous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler...
...backs--those last night sessions in which directors split hairs trying to choose actors for leading roles on the basis of second, only slightly more polished readings. And then a critic ought to sit in on late night decisions as two or three people (generally devoid of total recall) wade through upwards of two hundred applicants in search of a cast...
...reactions are interesting, but no one much cares what the recent journalism school graduate thinks of bars or workers or pimps. The primary role of journalism is to provide a basis for the reader to make his own judgment, a role which is sacrificed if the reader has to wade through dozens of 'what I thoughts' and 'how I felts.' (Mailer is careful here too: his Armies of the Night, even though relying heavily on his personal experiences and impressions, had an entire section, "The Novel as History," in which he dispassionately described the 1967 Pentagon march and the events...
...southern historian, Donald says, begins his search with "an emotional resonance," and southern history becomes a peculiar problem of personal identity. Yet emotional commitment is a basic criterion for historians in general: "You have to have something at stake as you wade through raw material on any topic...
...soon as possible, before too much of the semester progresses. And all reference science books should also be returned as soon as this becomes feasible. Science Tutors of the Radcliffe Houses: Jorge Goldstein, South House, Chemistry Charles Lerman, North House, Chemistry Judith W. Lerman, North House, Chemistry Leroy G. Wade, Jr. North House, Chemistry Michael Madison, Currier House, Biology Julian G. Blake, South House, Physics