Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precisely recorded, but the dialogue is close to the truth. For if anyone can talk to Hubert Humphrey, it is Dr. Edgar Berman, 53, an ex-surgeon from Baltimore who is not only the candidate's physician without pay but also his close friend, campaign adviser and omnipresent critic. If a Humphrey administration were to have a Colonel House, a Harry Hopkins-or even a Svengali-some jealous campaign aides suggest it would be Edgar Berman...
Fedin demanded that "vou must, above all, protest against the dirty use of your name by our enemies in the West." One writer told Solzhenitsyn to his face that "Cancer Ward makes you throw up when you read it," and urged Solzhenitsyn to follow the critic's own example: "I always try to write only about happy things." Replied Solzhenitsyn: "The task of the writer is to treat universal and eternal themes: the mysteries of the heart and conscience, the collision between life and death, the triumph over spiritual anguish." He told his accusers with bitter humor that he knew...
...bizarre and clearly fabricated charge of conspiracy to replace the Soviet government with a democracy under the Russian Orthodox Church. Mass expulsions from the Writers and Artists Unions began; this meant loss of jobs and apartments. Among those expelled was Solzhenitsyn's close friend from camp days, the critic Lev Kopelev. Even scientists were suddenly no longer immune. Some top mathematicians who signed petitions were thrown out of the party. In the Soviet Union's finest research center, the largely self-governing scientific city of Akademgorodok in Siberia, there has been a threatening crackdown on modern...
...Critical Cascade. Sheed, who is married and has three children, does his writing in a studio on Manhattan's West Side. With one of his cherished Hoyo de Monterey cigars always within reach, he scribbles in longhand with a No. 2 pencil. He half-consciously removes his clothes as he works. Precisely why he does that is a mystery but, whatever the reason, it enables him to produce a cascade of critical pieces in addition to his fiction. He is book editor of Commonweal, film critic for Esquire, and a freelance reviewer for at least half a dozen other...
...that class, Daniel Stern, a critic-novelist (After the War, Miss America) long preoccupied with the dusty corners of the modern soul, proves a deft performer. His literary colleague Kurt Vonnegut recently toyed with industrialized suicide (Welcome to the Monkey House), but only as an example of the dehumanized modern world efficiently eliminating Malthusian excess. Stern's Suicide Academy, by contrast, has a more promising metaphoric reach...