Word: loved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only work," complained the farmers. "We love, we get married, we raise our children. We are people, and nothing human is alien to us. Speaking frankly, comrade writers, some of your books simply make us feel sorry for you. Suppose you read a book about writers in which all attention is focused on the problem of which finger you hit the typewriter key with. Wouldn't it offend you? Then why don't you writers realize how boring it is to read books in which, instead of telling about living people, you only describe the square-cluster method...
...London auctioneer this week will hawk some love letters written by England's King George IV, most of them quilled to Maria Anne Fitzherbert, a widow six years his senior, who became his morganatic wife. Aside from their slushiness, the romantic epistles are historically interesting in graphically demonstrating the young prince's fickle ways. A few of the letters are addressed to "my own, own, own Isabella," a lady named Pigot, who happened to be Widow Fitz-herbert's companion. Where the salutation is hazy, it is impossible to know which woman young George was wooing...
...devastating characterization of Huey Long-like Politician Clarence Snopes, who rises from rural bully to candidate for Congress. If the Snopes family is unforgettable, it is because Author Faulkner understands them as deeply as he hates them. And like so many hates, it seems like a first cousin to love. As always, the Faulkner writing has its quota of awkwardness, irritation, downright sloppiness. And just as surely, much of it seems in the end like some kind of smoldering, personal poetry that stands out defiantly imperfect and unassailable...
...control the use and abuse of the superbomb. In this light, Mark Ampter is a human sacrifice to Bloch's God complex. This^ view may be colored by Chevalier's personal resentment (although he claims that "this book was written not with hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer. In its own bureaucratic language, it also spoke about pride and arrogance of judgment: "The record shows that Dr. Oppenheimer has consistently...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Psychologists at the University of Wisconsin prove that they can measure Mother Love -provided one of the lovers is a baby rhesus monkey and the "mother" (any object at all) is soft and cuddly...