Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compromise. David proselytizes at campaign rallies where he and Julie appear, but he has learned to speak briefly. "Julie gives me advice," he says, and in fact she can sometimes be blunt. "If she doesn't like the emphasis of the speech," David smiles, "she'll say so...
Every military outfit has its G.I. lawyer, learned in the lore of a soldier's real or imaginary rights. But when 38,037 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists were called to active duty last January, after North Korea seized U.S.S. Pueblo, their ranks included some professional attorneys. And...
Aware that the police may be after him, he moves through the upper echelons of Moscow; his fears alternate with moments of euphoric hope, counterpointing the luxurious world around him. Seized and taken to Lyubyanka, in three brilliant matter-of-fact chapters he begins to be stripped down to the...
In their lifetime many writers have been exposed, in the press and from the platform, to insults and slander without having any opportunity to reply. What is more, they have been exposed to violence and physical persecution. The board of the Writers' Union in cowardly fashion abandoned to their...
Seeking Identity. But José is sorting the offers carefully. Although he is only 23, he has been a professional for six years, and some of the people who want him now were not there when he needed them. Born in Puerto Rico, the second of eight brothers, he was...