Abstract
subjects the reader to such gems as these."To repeat, the sins in the world at large-at least, of the sort I'm talking aboutoften don't matter much.And sometimes, too, they don't matter in technical writing": and "-as I need hardly reiterate to this audience-."Moreover, the essay says nothing that other essays in the collection do not say with motivating verve.Mr. Harty assures us that these essays "have survived the most rigorous kind of scrutiny-that of my students ... at