Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Marek Hlasko, 26, most gifted writer of Poland's restless postwar generation, life in West Berlin was a succession of binges. Ever since he refused to return to his Communist homeland (TIME, Oct. 20), he had been lionized in Berlin's literary salons. His blond good looks and his unpredictable James Dean moods made girls eager to comfort him. In a surge of euphoria, Hlasko would cry: "Writing is a wonderful occupation, almost as good as drinking!" Or, cryptically: "I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom." Then depression would...
...they were still as hostile as ever to Nicolson, whose reputation in staid Bournemouth had not been enhanced by news that his firm, after other proper English publishers had turned it down, was about to publish the British edition of Lolita...
...pulled out all the old crowd-pleasers that were growing a bit jaded back home. He called the world press coverage of the executions "the most criminal, vile and cowardly campaign ever conducted against any people." At the Havana Hilton, Floor 23 emptied, the elevators and switchboards began running smoothly again. For a few hours there was peace in Cuba...
...have more peace of mind than I've ever known," exulted jade-eyed Cinemactress Gene Tierney last fall, serene after eight months of psychiatric care at Kansas' famed Menninger Clinic (TIME, Sept. 29). Last week 20th Century-Fox sadly announced that Actress Tierney would not be able to report next month for work on what was to be her first picture since 1955's The Left Hand of God. Of her own volition, she had re-entered the clinic for further treatment...
Mortified, the editors of Corral, the Oklahoma State University literary magazine, last week discovered that there are cheatniks among the beatniks of the new generation. The poem they printed, as gloriously beat as anything ever incanted by Allen (Howl) Ginsberg...