Word: diarist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everything I do, I do to please myself," the young diarist wrote. "If I write something, it is to be able to read myself; if I dress, it is to look well in my own eyes; I smile at myself in the mirror to be amiable to myself. Ah! My pride, my pride...
...Malcolm Endicott Peabody. "But few have read it. Few of those have understood it." What fascinated the public, though, was far less the book's content than the striking contrast it revealed between the public image of the icy, imperturbable diplomat and the passionate mysticism of the secret diarist...
...this admiring spiritual biography, Theologian Van Dusen argues that there is no incongruity between diplomat and diarist. After studying Hammarskjold's correspondence and talking with scores of his friends and associates, Presbyterian Van Dusen has been able to relate the entries of Markings to the changing moods of the statesman's life...
...arts. A contemporary English diarist, John Evelyn, noted that Bernini once "gave a public opera wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy and built the theater...
...TIME, July 8), the illustrated gem fetched $252,000-a record high for any book ever sold to the public. A New York dealer bought it, and the 272-page manuscript seemed destined to remain forever separate from the other six books of the Meta morphoses, bequeathed by Diarist Samuel Pepys in 1703 to Cambridge's Magdalene College...