Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Totems & Pen Pals. You can see wonderful relics of the early West in a train that has come from Montana-an invitation to a hanging, a machine with which a bartender could mix drinks with his foot, Calamity Jane's thundermug, and Custer's watch. In Parker Pen's handsome pavilion, a computer can seine the world to find you a pen pal who matches your interests and talents. In the New York City building, there is a fabulous 100-ft. by 160-ft. model of the city, including every structure in all five boroughs, built...
...father of American liberties. Anyone doubting the dogma, like Henry Adams or Albert Beveridge, has been dismissed as a crotchety old conservative. Now a Brandeis University historian has compared Jefferson's actions with his glowing words, and found the two a chasm apart "Jefferson's pen," writes Leonard Levy, "was mightier than his practice...
...York's two Republican Senators, Kenneth Keating, 64, and Jacob Javits, 60, have no problem remembering each other's birthday, since both were born on May 18. Last week Javits remembered Upstater Keating with a red-leather clipboard and pen, for jotting notes on planes during next fall's re-election campaign. In return, the big-city sophisticate got a wine decanter in red-leather casing, intended to keep the Burgundy at the right temperature...
Shaw persisted in thinking that total freedom fosters total reason and total reason begets complete virtue. He used his pen like a sword, and plays that live by the polemical sword die that...
Writing, says David Cornwell, 32, who authored The Spy Who Came in from the Cold under the pen name of John Le Carré, "is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie." For all that, Cornwell-Le Carré has seen too many mud pies that are the only pies some people have. And to combat such poverty, he proposes "a scheme called 'Write for Life.' " The idea is to get well-known writers to donate their royalties from a specific new book to a fund that...