Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talese quit his job as a general news reporter on the New York Times. His byline was appearing with increasing frequency, and "I liked working there," he says. "But I felt stifled by the dullness of the writing they demanded in those years." He switched to magazine writing and quickly made a name for himself as a practitioner of the so-called "new journalism" - highly interpretive reporting enlivened with plenty of descriptive personal detail. His gossipy profile of Times Managing Editor Clifton Daniel in Esquire became the talk of the publishing world. And thus began his backbreaking task of researching...
...fiefdoms and young knights strive to develop their own. It is a kingdom filled with tension. "During the last few years a quiet revolution has been going on within the Times," writes Talese. "Older Timesmen feared that the paper was losing touch with its tradition and younger men felt trapped by tradition...
...Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the Pinkertons seemed to direct the same obsessive passions Melville imputed to Captain Ahab, who was a first-class tracker by any detective's standards: "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down." Adopting a godlike motto ("We Never Sleep") the Pinkertons did not so much solve cases as play Puritan avenging angels in private duels with the devil...
...greatest novels, fictionalized versions of the lives of St. Francis and Christ, he portrayed both as men deeply drawn to the fleshly world but agonizingly aware that they must eventually transcend it. While he was writing The Last Temptation of Christ, Kazantzakis admitted in a letter: "I felt what Christ felt. I became Christ." God is "action," he wrote, "replete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher...
Retiring Revolutionary. Throughout his life, the letters make clear, Kazantzakis felt the impulse of the revolutionary. His signing of liberal manifestoes kept him in steady trouble with conservative Greek authorities. But ultimately he could accept neither the life-suppressing party discipline nor the brain-confining dogma of the principal revolutionary movement of his age. He never joined the Communist Party, and when, during World War II, he offered his services to the Greek partisans, they rejected him as unreliable. Kazantzakis derided the party's attempt to reduce life to a set of abstractions. Communists, he wrote, reminded...