Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published a review of Graham Greene's latest novel, A Burnt-Out Case, under the unsavory title, "Love Among the Lepers." As the person to whom the book is dedicated, I cannot but express my deep concern at your warped and lurid analysis of the novel. Since you agree that the theme of the novel does not center on the disease, you have deliberately and, in my estimation, shamefully exploited medieval attitudes to ward leprosy which render needless sensationalism. Graham Greene, as a novelist, has a right to choose whatever background he finds suitable to his writings, in this...
Schlesinger found, as others have before him, that many of Latin America's leaders in private are ready to express their growing disillusionment with Castro. Last week even Peruvian Leftist Victor Raul Haya de la Torre denounced the Castro government in public (see below). Half a dozen Latin American nations-Haiti, the Dominican Republic. Nicaragua, Guatemala, Peru and Paraguay-have already broken off diplomatic relations with Castro...
...feel like Dr. Frankenstein. I taught her everything she knows, and she's damn smart." Thus did chain-smoking Houston Post Gossip Columnist Bill Roberts, 43, express his frustration about a journalistic "creation" that has come home to haunt him: blonde Maxine Mesinger, 35, tattler for the Houston Press. Once Roberts' girl Friday on the Press, Maxine last week was still scooping her way through town as his chief rival, barely noting a snippy feud that has Houstonians gabbing as much about the two columnists as about the people they chronicle...
...celebrities as Marguerite Piazza and Carol Channing. Businessmen enjoyed boasting to her about real estate .deals and stock market killings. Political dopesters put her so far on the inside that when she accurately forecast that Governor Price Daniel would run for a third term. Daniel himself called Maxine to express amazement. Cried the Governor: "I hadn't even told my wife...
...other forms of writing, however, has remained basic and permanent. For Miss Gordimer, the need to communicate feelings and ideas is the nucleus around which the story takes shape and substance. "You want to say something. It comes from inside. It's a terribly selfish thing. You want to express yourself. Because other people are fundamentally like you, they find it interesting...