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On November 18, 1962, in his “Speaking of Books” column, J. Donald Adams published a self-congratulatory article on the quality of writing in the New York Times Book Review. Smugness was added to what had been merely sloppiness of style, triviality and commercialism.

How does the Times reviewer, for example, evoke Sublimity?

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On November 18, 1962, in his “Speaking of Books” column, J. Donald Adams published a self-congratulatory article on the quality of writing in the New York Times Book Review. Smugness was added to what had been merely sloppiness of style, triviality and commercialism.

How does the Times reviewer, for example, evoke Sublimity?