Word: letter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter writers had centered their criticism, in an eight-hour-collective session, on a farm novel called Meditation by one F. Panfyorov. Answered he wanly: "I'm glad so many people read my book...
...overfamiliar Soviet plot, in which boy meets tractor girl and lives happily ever after raising norms, was getting too much for even barnyard critics to take. Last week Moscow's Literary Gazette, newspaper of the writers' union, published a letter reflecting the collective complaints of 19,000 "milkmaids, swineherds, calf-maids, gardeners, field hands, tractor drivers and collective farm chairmen.'' Gist: Soviet writers should stop filling their novels with foolishly detailed descriptions of farm chores they know nothing about and calling the result literature...
...then cut off the major's ammunition and supplies. Last week, when Fidel's Red-lining brother Raul took over as Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Matos quit in protest. "No one can talk to you on the Communism issue," he told Fidel in a final letter...
...letter to the Commission, DeGuglielmo specifically requests that since the notary who allegedly handled a disputed ballot has also handled many other absentee ballots, the Commission should "re-submit all ballots notarized by this individual to the original voters for inspection and verification...
...administration become highly annoyed at the suggestion that Penn, for all its efforts, is still the school of the Ivy look and the organization man. "The 'Ivy League look' is the business--an awful phrase," Pitt maintains. "In fact, Dean Bender of Harvard wrote the Ivy admissions directors a letter offering a bottle of whiskey for the man who could think of a new name." Pitt tries to prove his point by quoting students who usually complain that "there are not enough people like themselves, rather than the reverse." Yet, if the students themselves seem to prefer homogenity to heterogeneity...