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Alas. Writing clear introductory books was considered a noble calling in the mid-century, and we saw people like Jacques Barzun and Bertrand Russell turning their hands to such work, not to mention such brilliant expositors as William Barrett and Erich Heller. Publish or Perish was one blow; in my early days as a scholar, I was outright discouraged from writing for anyone but my peers, all few dozen of them. Post-modernism was another; the parlous jiggery-pokery that passed for academic prose in 90s and 00s could never be rendered into plain English. Again, alas and alack.<div><br></div><div>MW Morse</div><div>Trent University</div><div>Peterborough, Oshawa<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">The mid-20th century seems to have been a high-water mark for people
writing real books about real stuff. Or maybe I'm just getting old!
(That's a fact!)<br>
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Christopher Bonds<br>
Wayne State College, Emeritus<br><br></div><style><!--
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