Word: essayistic
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...year-old Luigi Longo, who was Berlinguer's predecessor as party boss, challenged the tactic of non-opposition because it put "the interests of the party in second place [merely] in order to show our national responsibility." He was countered by Giorgio Amendola, 69, a noted historian and essayist, who emphasized that Italy's current crisis (17% inflation, a $20 billion budget deficit and $16 billion in foreign debts) required the party to put the national interest and the fight against inflation ahead of anything else...
...Wenyuan, the brilliant, acerbic essayist and literary critic who, while a Politburo member and a party secretary in Shanghai, had been running the country's propaganda machinery...
Diana Trilling called it censorship; Lillian Hellman called it "unpleasant business." But to some, last week's go around had the look of a literary row par excellence. The clawing began when Essayist Trilling, 71, widow of Critic Lionel Trilling, disclosed that Little, Brown & Co. had canceled her book contract. The reason, said a representative of the publisher, was "unpleasantly personal attacks" on Playwright Hellman, 69, a longtime Little, Brown writer and author of the current bestseller Scoundrel Time. Hellman had stood firm in the face of a congressional inquisition during the Joseph McCarthy era, and in her book...
ALBERT MURRAY, 60, novelist and essayist: Certain regional characteristics will be maintained. Southern belles won't give up those accents because they're smart and know it often helps to sound dumb. But young liberal Southerners are rejecting the views-especially about race-of their Confederate ancestors. For the first time since the failure of the old Populist movement, we've got a workable coalition of poor whites, liberal whites and minorities. Jimmy Carter's manhood is entwined with Andrew Young's, just like Huck Finn's was with...
...movie fans are fascinated with Parveen, aside from her sleek figure, is because of her candor. Young men and women all over India claim that it is the swinging lives of the stars that are suddenly making them much less hesitant about jumping into bed with each other. Indian Essayist Nirad C. Chaudhuri charges India's cinema with being the "aphrodisiac" responsible for his country's exploding population, which seems slightly unfair, since the birth rate was soaring long before movies...