As anyone who has read The Company They Keep will know, the historical information Glyer offers on the Inklings and their meetings is both thorough and fascinating, and this is true of her
abridgment as well.
Wilkie Collins is right in protesting against the ordinary method of reviewing novels, the greater part of the review being devoted to an
abridgment of the story.
The second means of "
abridgment" that the Andayas adopt, that by geography, helps them to analyse what happened in each of the periods that their chapters discuss.
The self titled Bad Boys of
Abridgment have created nine stage shows and two television specials and are currently on an 81-date national tour that is tak-taking in venues up and down the country.
Today, 30-some years and several personnel changes after its debut--with a high-spirited half-hour
abridgment of one single Shakespearean play at a weekend outdoor event in Northern California--the company brings its latest concoction to Mill Valley, just 15 miles from where it all started.
A life characterized by poverty, oppression, war, violence, disease, pollution and the
abridgment of human rights.
Virginia State Bar that de facto price-fixing of title examination fees by the Virginia Bar was unconstitutional as an
abridgment on the freedom of competition (1975) (sound familiar from the Butler opinion of the Florida Supreme Court (2000)?); that retailers of prescription eyeglasses could advertise their prices notwithstanding Virginia State Board of Pharmacy rules prohibiting such advertising (1976); and that--perish the thought--lawyers could advertise their services, thereby overruling the Arizona Supreme Court in the landmark Bates case (1977).
Though the music was predominantly that of the Strausses - the two Johanns and Josef - there were excerpts from other composers, including an amusing
abridgment of the great works of Vivaldi and Beethoven to few seconds.
The Poor in Liberation Theology is an
abridgment of a thesis arising from "a practical frustration which has led to a theoretical questioning" (p.
This
abridgment of the 2012 fifth edition was designed as an entry-level textbook for graduate and undergraduates.
If, as a result of the
abridgment of the process, the job is completed more quickly or more easily (omitting lock-out for example), those Consequences can reinforce the abridged procedure, which could eventually lead to a mishap.
Thornton Wilder: A Life is a fine and readable book, but it calls for two once-respectable literary skills now fallen into disuse:
abridgment and speed-reading." DAVID WALTON
