Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't comment until I see the article," the Crimson mentor stated, referring to a Boston Post account of "unprintable messages" sent to his family...
...SOUTHERNERS are always being asked to account for themselves in general; it's a national habit . . . Now that the 'Southern Renaissance' is a frequent term, and they are being asked to account for that, some try, and others just go on writing. In one little Mississippi town on the river, 17 authors are in the national print and a Pulitzer Prize winner edits the paper...
...later, the embattled Catholics of the Tonkin area gave a better account of themselves, fighting with the kind of religious fervor so often theoretically invoked in the West as the answer to the fanatic fervor of the Communists...
Resistance in Berlin. In The Dancing Bear, a warmhearted but coolheaded account of how Berlin rose from its ashes, Frances Faviell, wife of a British occupation officer, describes how the cold war tore one German family apart. The author met her heroine, Frau Maria Altmann, when the old German lady, who was pushing a handcart piled high with furniture, collapsed in the street. By her own admission, Author Faviell had gone to Germany "wanting vengeance," but in Frau Altmann's lined face she saw a quiet human courage that made vengeance seem irrelevant. For the next three years-through...
There are two short stories in this Advocate, both unpretentious and excellently written. Except for a few lines of mutually embarrassing dialect ("Da Jevvys don't want no one screwin' roun' wi dat pia-ano . . ."), Frederick Kimball's account of an artist in Jesuit clothing moves serenely to its well-ordained conclusion. Christopher Lasch's story of boy's despair before a more accomplished, less dependent companion never loses subtlety at the expense of clarity...