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Good to read, but sparse Index and brevity preclude its use as a reference grammar.
At the time of publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961), commonly referred to as Webster's Third (but in these pages, for the sake of brevity, as MW3 or MWIII ), I was director of the reference department of Random House, preparing what was later to be published as The Random House Dictionary of the English Dictionary - Unabridged Edition . It was therefore entirely inappropriate for me to comment on either the MWIII itself or the furor raised by its critics and supporters.
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.)
However, the brevity of this questionnaire might not have permitted complete recording of all sources of fat.
Hebrew, I am happy to report, has always tended to an admirable brevity.
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