Word: brienisms
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...baseball game, he writes of the fans: "Most of them. I suppose, have mediocre jobs and live in drab houses and have little learning and no appreciation of art." When Senator O'Brien (an "imaginary" character who is responsible for a vicious climate called O'Brienism) goes after Whitehead on trumped-up charges of being a Soviet agent, a lot of recent imaginary history is tediously rewritten. Badgered by O'Brien, his job lost. Whitehead takes off for a Connecticut farm where he bravely exults to diary: "Farming and writing-that will be a life!" Cutting...
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