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It can be a poignant trait, as with Jay Gatsby; or an evil one, as with Hannibal Lecter; or a creepy one, as with Annie Wilkes; or a mesmerizing one, as with Willy Wonka; or an epic one, as with Charles Foster Kane; or a pa­thetic one, as with Norma Desmond.

There are, however, some evolutionary implications of the synes­thetic smoothness hypothesis and of the frequency code.

In their defense, Benjamin’s writing, which by 1934 had adopted the form of imagistic and thetic collage that would characterize all his late essays, was like nothing that had come before and—except in pale imitation—like nothing since.

Its new commander, Gen. George C. McClellan, like a good Yankee, was in principle sympa­thetic to advanced technology.

A detailed and largely sympa­thetic��Columbia Journalism Review��account of a Patch editor in upstate New York described how the service logically focused on more affluent communi­ties.