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And his appraisal of actors and acting is shockingly amateurish.
This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)
Agencies were to establish these performance management systems by their 2001 senior executive performance appraisal cycles.
Finally, to investigate the stability of our conclusions, a broad methodological appraisal of the quality of the trials was performed, specifically examining those dimensions that have been empirically linked to bias [ 7 ] .
Agencies were to implement the new policies for the SES appraisal cycles that began in 2001.