Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nagging questions persist: Why did so many acquiesce in Hitler's evil? Why did so many Jews go quietly to their deaths when they had a good chance of resisting? Fiction, rather than scholarship, has supplied the shrewder answers. Perhaps the profoundest explanation to date comes from the pen of a Jewish writer driven from Germany in 1936 and now living in Holland. Hans Keilson's novel subtly and eloquently probes the ambivalent relation of victim with aggressor...
...clients tearfully justified it, as Komsomolskaya Pravda put it, by "a passionate desire to have their children go to college, and by the poor preparation they received in high school." Last week Papa and five of his ghosts, having flunked a nasty courtroom exam, were enrolled in the pen for terms up to 15 years...
...Forces group he was inspecting ("It just seemed to be the thing to do"). He graduated from Harvard and Yale Law School, was once a clerk to retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed. Less a specialist than most Whiz Kids, he is a keen troubleshooter with a fluent pen and an eye for extracting the essential. He got the Administration's civil defense program (such as it was) under...
...more aggressive in budgeting for new plant and equipment and should start spending more on far-out research to develop new products. (Capital spending as a percentage of gross national product is currently 50% higher in Europe than in the U.S.). "For solid economic growth," says Dutch Economist Jan Pen, ''you need a shift from one sector to another-as in the past from textiles and railroads to electronics and chemicals. What America needs is a new growth sector." Sums up Yoshizane Iwasa, vice president of Tokyo's powerful Fuji Bank: "The U.S. must have far greater...
POETRY CONTEST: will the entrant to the Poetry Competition whose pen name is "John Swiitz" please come to Matthews...