Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First National City Bank of New York decided to try a little of the ridiculous itself. Along with its monthly newsletter last week, the bank sent 250,000 subscribers an amazing document that lambasted bankers for "violation of trust," "barren feudalistic prejudice" and "misuse of funds." The angry author using the bank's stationery: A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who had taken a rapping from National City and, like any good politician, wanted equal time to rap right back...
Budding Irony. With the infinite patience of a housewife unsnarling an atrocious tangle of wool, Author Wedgwood shows just how the men of Parliament, aided by the Calvinist Scots, wound up the bright Cavalier cause, captured its fugitive leader and beheaded him. Their answer to flamboyant dash was the sturdy discipline of Cromwell's and Fairfax' "New Model army"; their retort to royal deceit was tough, businesslike cunning-along with an ironhandedness that eventually gave Cromwell the very absolutism he had denied to Charles...
...narrator recalls, his memory distorted by a sense of tragedy lurking in his background. The newcomer's father was once a prosperous winegrower. His mother surprised her husband making love to a maid and, with her baby still unborn, retreated grimly to the distant home. From such earth, Author Simon grows a strange, sour wine...
...evening and talks; and her two little girls, who follow him about for the gumdrops he hands out. But fate, Novelist Simon seems to be saying with irony, cooperates enthusiastically in making martyrs of saints; the woman is murdered, and the two children are taken away. "Man," writes the author, "is doubtless something more than matter; perhaps not much more, but all the same a little something more, just enough for his misery and his misfortune...
Taste of Sorrow. Author Simon's harsh, hard-blowing prose suggests, in the oblique way of poetry, the wind he writes of. A member of France's school of New Realists (TIME. Aug. 4; Oct. 13), he sprawls 1,000-word sentences, nested with concentric sets of parenthetical statements and restatements, across four-page expanses of type. The flow of words, like the wind, halts for a moment, then rushes on, engulfing a stabbing or a casual conversation with the same intensity. Simon rewrites without editing (a mouth is "closed again immediately afterwards, or rather pursed again...