Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breakfast, which usually consisted of juice, eggs, sausage and coffee. Patty's 9-ft. by 7-ft. cell adjoined a similar one occupied by Emily Harris; the two women talked and watched a black-and-white TV set in the hallway. They traded reading material, including The Golden Notebook, a complex novel by Doris Lessing about self-definition. Sheriff John D. McDonald Jr. said that the two were model prisoners. "They do what they're told, and they've put no demands...
...dressed splendidly in a braided gold miter and brocade cope. As they watched, the prelate moved in front of a large table, pronouncing the words of blessing with a Maurice Chevalier accent and making the sign of the Cross over hammers and screwdrivers, a violin, a teacher's notebook, a housewife's wooden spoon, an artist's brushes...
...week's Education section on the ragged state of the English language in the U.S., Senior Writer Lance Morrow spent two months off and on compiling examples of mangled prose from such varied sources as the Congressional Record, high school compositions and sociological journals. Morrow also kept a notebook - which swelled to 60 pages - of tortured usages found in everyday reading, television watching and conversation. In some ways, it was a chastening exercise. Morrow found that he frequently sinned, most often in using careless conversational "filler" phrases like "you know" and "well, ah." Colleagues who have chatted with...
...interested anyone by this time was changing the form of government we wanted only to forget it." The New society must be a collective one. Authority must be based on love and caring rather than on power. Lessing, who described her departure from the Communist Party in The Golden Notebook, has abandoned rhetoric for a more humanistic tone, where individuals take the place of party lines...
British Novelist Doris Lessing is a mystic. Once, in The Golden Notebook, her frontier was women's liberation. In Briefing for a Descent into Hell, and now in The Memoirs of a Survivor, she has so abstracted herself from the present and the actual as to deserve another name than novelist. Call her latest book a ghost story of the future...