Word: catton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruce Catton is a gentle soul. Even his 13 Civil War books-while alive and ablaze with the sights and sounds of doomed men dashing up grassy slopes, or storming across stubbled cornfields, or simply slaughtering one another -are curiously gentle. There is not much blood and guts in Catton's works. Men either die bravely or they simply die. All are controlled by a civilization they cannot understand...
...zoning laws, Creamer bases his case on a recent state constitutional amendment intended to assure the citizenry of its right to "the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic virtues of the environment." He has called on such notables as Architect Louis Kahn and Historian Bruce Catton to testify on the state's behalf. County Court Judge John A. MacPhail recently turned Creamer down, however, ruling that "historical Gettysburg has already been raped," and also noting that an Interior Department agreement with Ottenstein implied approval -a contention the department now denies. Creamer is moving the conflict this week...
Untimely Clock. FAS now faces trouble from another, unlikely quarter: the teaching faculty at Famous Writers School in Westport, Conn. The faculty does not consist of Clifton Fadiman, Bruce Catton, Phyllis McGinley or the twelve other literary luminaries who for undisclosed sums have lent their names and faces to the school's familiar ads ("We're looking for people who want to write"). Rather it is made up of 38 nonfamous writers who actually handle the school's mail-order instruction. Dissatisfied with toiling in regimented obscurity, they formed Local 427 of the Office and Professional Employees...
...school's "guiding faculty," as its advertisements stress, includes Cerf and such other U.S. literary figures as Faith Baldwin, Bruce Catton, Clifton Fadiman, Phyllis McGinley and Max Shulman. "There is probably nothing illegal in the FWS operation," writes Miss Mitford judiciously, but she encourages would-be writers to take state-university correspondence courses for a fraction of the cost...
Within minutes, he is sprinting to the Algonquin, where he table-hops counterclockwise, pausing for quick chats with Norman Mailer and Bruce Catton. Lyons, who has a law degree from St. John's University (it was Sylvia who talked him into giving up law for newspapering), stops to say hello to a judge or two. But his eyes keep flicking ahead...