Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Look at you, brainwashing a whole generation of kids into getting a revolving charge account and buying your junk. (Who's a junkie?) Look at you, needing a couple of stiff drinks before you have the guts to talk with another human being. Look at you, making it with your neighbor's wife just to prove that you're really alive. Look at you, screwing up the land and the water and the air for profit, and calling this nowhere scene the Great Society! And you're gonna tell us how to live...
Died. Virgilia Peterson, 62, critic and author whose gentle book reviews and coolly poised performance as moderator of the TV panel The Author Meets the Critics belied the fierce passion in her autobiography, A Matter of Life and Death, a startlingly candid account of her hatreds and loves, notably 17 years with the second of her three husbands, Polish Prince Paul Sapieha; of a heart attack; in Sharon, Conn...
...among the last of a vanishing species of Englishmen-a cultivated, gregarious, urbane, multitalented man who was a diplomat, politician and bon vivant, as well as an influential critic and writer. From 1930 to 1964 Nicolson sat down each morning after breakfast and typed out an unsparingly candid account of what he had done, seen and thought the day before. In October 1964, when his son Nigel began to winnow through the notes, he found about 3,000,000 words...
...mustered out of the Navy 20 years ago. Apparently it occurred to him late that crime was not his true calling. Through a correspondence course offered by the University of Minnesota, Elli discovered that he had a greater talent for writing. The resulting novel, a tense, minute-by-minute account of a prison riot, shows that he has a born storyteller's way with a yarn...
...endless inning to a line-up of major-league All-Stars, who toyed with him by fouling off as many as 20 pitches before delivering the coup de grâce. In his latest adventure, Plimpton was last-string quarterback for the Detroit Lions during training season. This account of his adventure goes beyond an amateur's blushing recital to become a participant's picture of the sixties' hottest spectator sport...