Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once but many times. At the age of 14, he ran away from home to seek his fortune in a romantic place called Cody, Wyoming. There he learned the hard realities of a cowpoke's life until World War II and service in the U.S. Marines (Purple Heart at Tarawa). After the war and art studies in Europe, he headed West again, where he still spends part of each year on a ranch near Lost Cabin, Wyo. His brilliant paintings and bronzes-of stampeding steers, dust-churning ponies and lean-featured frontiersmen -have the same quality of rough-chiseled...
...wrote my last novel, The Fire, with no feeling left in my heart, without faith and without hope. I knew in advance for certain that, even if they published it, they would ruthlessly cut everything human out of it, and that at best it would appear as just one more "ideological" potboiler. (And that is, incidentally, exactly what happens...
...Dmytryk later admitted that he was a Communist for a year, in 1944-45, before undergoing "a complete change of heart...
...somehow, all this doesn't lead to despair. Despair--or what would lead to it--is transmorgrified. It is the old ugly duckling routine: man, we are told, is ugly, the uglier the better, because (and this is where the inexorable logic of the human heart denies the overwhelming evidence of history) man is soon to become the swan. What kind of swan? Well, the speculation forms the basis for a whole body of literature, a literature whose only real unity is a pervasive belief in man's future transfiguration. Tolkein, Hesse, Arthur C. Clark, all the fountainheads of their...
SEVENTH--TWIST OF LEMON will have to run her heart out to beat these sturdy males...